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Homeschooling led this 16 year old to shoot and kill his parents.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:14 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:14 pm
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Home-schooled Texas teen accused of killing strict parents who wouldn't let him watch violent movies: report
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The message is, home school your kid = sheltered kid = murderer. So don't home school your kid.
fricking media.
You never hear:
quote:
Public-schooled Texas teen accused of killing strict parents
or you never hear
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Public-schooled teen accused of killing friends
which happens on the streets of New Orleans and Chicago every f'n day.
I know the deceased though my wife. My wife is devastated. They were fantastic people and home schooled all 5 of their children. How in the hell did the other 4 turn out to be well adjusted young adults? That's a fricking mystery I think the media should investigate.
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:16 pm to GumboPot
I wonder where he learned to kill if he wasn't allowed to be exposed to violent movies (and I assume video games). That's the only way these kids learn to be violent right?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:20 pm to GRTiger
That sucks.....that article definitely pointed a finger at home schooling. There was something else going on in that home tho. Kids don't just shoot their parents without some kind of warning sign.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:22 pm to GumboPot
cart before the horse
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:22 pm to GumboPot
That really is a horrible article. It's like they want to blame the parents being responsible.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:23 pm to GRTiger
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I wonder where he learned to kill if he wasn't allowed to be exposed to violent movies (and I assume video games). That's the only way these kids learn to be violent right?
IDK.
There were no guns in the house.
He shot his parents, from what I know with a rifle. He shot is mom in bed in the arm and head. His dad died of one gun shot wound in the hallway.
I'm purely speculating but it's got to be a .223 or higher caliber.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:23 pm to tilco
I assume like most people who end up killing loved ones, some type of abuse or mental illness was at play.
It's certainly ridiculous to blame the method of schooling. Quite hypocritical, as the op pointed out.
It's certainly ridiculous to blame the method of schooling. Quite hypocritical, as the op pointed out.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:25 pm to GumboPot
And spoons made Rosie O'donnel fat. Same logic.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:25 pm to C
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That really is a horrible article. It's like they want to blame the parents being responsible.
It's the very definition of a tragedy. I've been asking the question "why" since I found out yesterday morning. I'll probably never know and the kid probably doesn't even know.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:26 pm to GumboPot
In Germany you can go to jail for ten years and lose custody of your children if it is discovered that you home school them.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
If that was a way to call the thread Germans, it is the most creative one I've seen lately. 
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:29 pm to GumboPot
Interestingly he apparently hadn't seen any violent movies or played any violent video games but grew up a killer anyway.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:29 pm to GRTiger
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It's certainly ridiculous to blame the method of schooling. Quite hypocritical, as the op pointed out.
The issue is, the media got information of Ryan and Maria Callens being strict parents from interviewing another teenager in the neighborhood. That's an unbiased source.
Regardless of strict parents or not, you don't kill people over it. I just don't get it.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:31 pm to GumboPot
Just reading the headline, it does sound as though the writer intends the home-schooling to seem causal. OP has a point
I've known some good folks (from somewhat odd families, admittedly) who were home-schooled. Some straight-up losers too.
I've known some good folks (from somewhat odd families, admittedly) who were home-schooled. Some straight-up losers too.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Germans have decent schools, so that rule makes a little bit of sense.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:34 pm to 90proofprofessional
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I've known some good folks (from somewhat odd families, admittedly) who were home-schooled. Some straight-up losers too.
Whether they are home schooled, go to private school or public school...is all immaterial. People of all shapes and sizes come from every type of schooling, including murders.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:36 pm to GumboPot
yeah, i've known plenty of kids from strict parents ... none of them were murdered ... dunno ... maybe the kid's just a child of this generation that gets pissed if they don't get their way ...
hope he gets tried as an adult and given at least a life sentence ...
hope he gets tried as an adult and given at least a life sentence ...
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:37 pm to OleWar
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Germans have decent schools, so that rule makes a little bit of sense.
Come on guys, are y'all being serious about schools in Germany or is this really germans?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:38 pm to GumboPot
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The issue is, the media got information of Ryan and Maria Callens being strict parents from interviewing another teenager in the neighborhood. That's an unbiased source.
Not to mention, they would have probably been just as strict if he went to a regular school. If they blame their parenting style on the killing, him being home schooled is pretty irrelevant.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:38 pm to tiderider
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hope he gets tried as an adult and given at least a life sentence .
I know for a fact that his dad wouldn't want that. But it's really not up to him, it's up to the State of Texas now.
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