NEWS: Focus on the Families: CBS Attacks Home Schools
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NEWS: Focus on the Families: CBS Attacks Home Schools
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CBS Attacks Home Schools
by Steve Jordahl, correspondent
Home schoolers are angry with Dan Rather and the Eye
Network after a scathing report.
Home schoolers are mad at CBS News for unleashing a
scathing attack on them in a two-part report. Called "A Dark
Side to Home Schooling," it singled out cases of abuse and
death at the hands of home-school parents and left the
impression the problem is rampant.
Specifically, "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" report
said: "A CBS News investigation found dozens of cases of
parents accused or convicted of child abuse or murder who
were teaching their children at home."
Wendy Jeub, who teaches her children at home, said she
was offended by the story which paints home schooling
with a very broad brush.
"(CBS is) blaming home schooling for abuse, neglect and
even murder," Jeub said. "It's like blaming the public schools
for any crime that's ever been committed by a public school
student."
Chris Klicka, an attorney with the Home School Legal
Defense Association, said someone is out to discredit
the home-school movement and is using CBS to do so.
"(These allegations) couldn't be further from the truth, and
this is really inaccurate and unprofessional reporting," Klicka
said. "I definitely think that there are certain elite (members
of) the education communities in America who do have some
sway with the media."
He said this report might be the first of many attacks in the
mainstream media.
"We think the honeymoon (home schooling has had) with the
press is over," Klicka said. "They've been with us for the most
part over the last 20 years; we have been considered the
underdog."
TAKE ACTION/FOR MORE INFORMATION
To view an online version of the report that CBS aired, visit
their Web site and click on "Home School Nightmares." Your
computer must have a media player installed in order to
view the report.
If you do not have the needed media player to view the video
version, please visit the CBS Website to read the condensed
version of their story "A Dark Side to Home Schooling."
To contact Dan Rather with your views on home schooling,
please see the following link from CitizenLink's Legislative
Action Center.
(NOTE: Referral to Web sites not produced by Focus on the
Family is for informational purposes only and does not
necessarily constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)
< http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028416.cfm >
CBS Attacks Home Schools
by Steve Jordahl, correspondent
Home schoolers are angry with Dan Rather and the Eye
Network after a scathing report.
Home schoolers are mad at CBS News for unleashing a
scathing attack on them in a two-part report. Called "A Dark
Side to Home Schooling," it singled out cases of abuse and
death at the hands of home-school parents and left the
impression the problem is rampant.
Specifically, "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" report
said: "A CBS News investigation found dozens of cases of
parents accused or convicted of child abuse or murder who
were teaching their children at home."
Wendy Jeub, who teaches her children at home, said she
was offended by the story which paints home schooling
with a very broad brush.
"(CBS is) blaming home schooling for abuse, neglect and
even murder," Jeub said. "It's like blaming the public schools
for any crime that's ever been committed by a public school
student."
Chris Klicka, an attorney with the Home School Legal
Defense Association, said someone is out to discredit
the home-school movement and is using CBS to do so.
"(These allegations) couldn't be further from the truth, and
this is really inaccurate and unprofessional reporting," Klicka
said. "I definitely think that there are certain elite (members
of) the education communities in America who do have some
sway with the media."
He said this report might be the first of many attacks in the
mainstream media.
"We think the honeymoon (home schooling has had) with the
press is over," Klicka said. "They've been with us for the most
part over the last 20 years; we have been considered the
underdog."
TAKE ACTION/FOR MORE INFORMATION
To view an online version of the report that CBS aired, visit
their Web site and click on "Home School Nightmares." Your
computer must have a media player installed in order to
view the report.
If you do not have the needed media player to view the video
version, please visit the CBS Website to read the condensed
version of their story "A Dark Side to Home Schooling."
To contact Dan Rather with your views on home schooling,
please see the following link from CitizenLink's Legislative
Action Center.
(NOTE: Referral to Web sites not produced by Focus on the
Family is for informational purposes only and does not
necessarily constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)