A recent news article describe an accused child molester/killer as "home-schooled before moving to Florida."
What does that mean? His parents pulled him out of public school for a year? He was homeschooled his entire academic career? What?
I searched the news articles hoping to find more information about his homeschooling background. I was unable to find any more information than "home-schooled before moving to Florida."
I did, however, find more information about his childhood in which his upbringing is described as "bizarre." This article doesn't mention homeschooling at all. It does mention that when the accused was a young child, his older sister (who was 8 years old at the time) was married to their step-father. That kind of strikes me as a headline grabber.
I wish the media wouldn't hang the homeschool label on persons accused of heinous crimes without qualifying what that means.
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