Newtown CT Commission: "Homeschooling Kids Could Lead to Homicidal Killers"

By Elizabeth Nelson

Well, I guess Newton doesn't have enough to keep them busy or to spend their money on. I can understand how they could want to prevent another Sandy Hook, but they are going about it in all the wrong ways. 

Have you heard what this room of rocket scientists came up with?  What they truly believe is going to spot the sociopath and homicidal killer and prevent another mass killing before they take the shot? Keeping a "tighter scrutiny" and a close eye on Home Schooled children.

A 16-member commission of educators, local and state officials and behavioral experts assembled by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre is calling for more oversight of homeschooling.

Sandy Hook School SignMalloy “charged the panel with making recommendations to reduce the risk of future tragedies,” according to the New Haven Register. Its chief recommendation is “tighter scrutiny of home-schoolers … to prevent an incident such as the December 2012 slaughter of 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,” the Connecticut Post reports.

Really? This is what they came up with?  They don't have enough to worry about, like drugs, gangs or David, the little 12-year-old boy, who took his dad's gun to school, no, not to kill anyone but himself, because he was being bullied mercilessly, let alone the other guns that they now have to worry about watching out for.

“She mentioned she wound up home-schooling him because she battled with the school district,” Nancy’s sister-in-law Marsha told ABC in 2012.

But wait, Adam was already in the system to begin with, so he was already a screwed-up product of the public school system, long before his mom started to "home-school" him.

“The purpose of this recommendation is to make sure that kids get what kids need. If they have needs that aren’t being addressed, just because the parent has chosen to remove them from the school setting… their needs are still going to be met,” Kathleen Flaherty, staff attorney for Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, said of the recommendations, according to CTnewsjunkie.com.

Many parents make that decision for very valid reasons. Should that make them subject to additional governmental scrutiny, as the panel is suggesting?

Because if the act of homeschooling and the perceived lack of governmental oversight is to blame, how does Sandy Hook Advisory Panel explain way these public school students:

* On March 21, 2005, Red Lake Senior High School student Jeffrey Weise killed five students, one teacher, one security guard, and then committed suicide.

* On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher, and wounded 21 others before committing suicide.

I'd like to add a little note here, something that "gun-ban nuts" hate; this school shooting was one of TWENTY school shootings that happened during Diane Feinstein's original assault weapons ban.  So, gun-bans work to stop murder, rape, and robberies? Yeah, as well as they do in Prison.  Oh, maybe those inmates were home schooled.

* On March 5, 2001, student Charles Andrew Williams killed two students and wounding 13 others at Santana High School in California.

* On February 27, 2012, TJ Lane walked into the Chardon High School cafeteria and fired into a group of students sitting at a lunch table. Three students died in the attack. His “emotional disability” was such that he wore a t-shirt with “Killer” scrawled on it to his sentencing. Continue Reading EAGnews


Sadly, instead of using common sense and the education system to their advantage, they'd rather alienate a small percentage of their school population and actually empower the school bullies.  Wouldn't we think it would be in their best interest to empower their students and faculty by educating them to watch for the red flag signs and to alert others when they see them so that the proper people can stop the student before they have a chance to act on their desire to hurt themselves or others?  No, I guess this would be too easy.