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Helping Kids Deal with Violence Around Them

Last week, a 16 year old honor student was beaten to death on his way home from school. The child was an innocent bystander who go caught in the middle of a fight between to gangs (they are described as “factions” in a newspaper report.) An amateur video found all over the net shows the attack. As parents of teens, we have to face the facts that it is nearly impossible to keep our children safe from the violence around them. Angry students plan attacks on their schools. Student shoot and beat each other on school buses and on the … Continue reading →

Reasons I am Glad We Homeschool: School Bus Incidents

For the last couple of days an instance of school bus violence has dominated education news and blogs. Basically, a white student got on the school bus and no one would allow him to sit down next to them. (There where both white and black kids on the bus refusing him.) The driver yelled for the kids to sit down so he moved the book bag of a black kid and sat down. Other students began to instigate and the black boy who he sat next to attacked him. A few minutes later it appeared that the first attacker had … Continue reading →