{"id":6826,"date":"2009-05-09T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/reason-to-homeschool-394875203939825792438745293488723894579348\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:00:20","slug":"reason-to-homeschool-394875203939825792438745293488723894579348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/reason-to-homeschool-394875203939825792438745293488723894579348.html","title":{"rendered":"Reason to Homeschool #394875203939825792438745293488723894579348"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/05\/08\/chicago.children.slain\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The slaughter of students in the Chicago public schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reader remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the head says, if this were swine flu, there\u2019d be a panic *and* action. If this were a white neighborhood, there\u2019d be heads rolling, figuratively, instead of bodies dropping, literally.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Mayor Daley says his city is no worse than others \u2014 and it only *seems* like one student death a week by torture, gunshot wounds, and fire is a lot because they count dropouts as students in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Windy\u2019 is right\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have I mentioned that we homeschool?  So far, our student torture, murder and arson rate stands at a disappointing zero.  Also, not much gang activity or pregnancy to report.  Our kids are tragically \u201ccut off\u201d from all sorts of \u201creality\u201d and busy learning about wussy stuff like love and learning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slaughter of students in the Chicago public schools A reader remarks: As the head says, if this were swine flu, there\u2019d be a panic *and* action. If this were a white neighborhood, there\u2019d be heads rolling, figuratively, instead of bodies dropping, literally. 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