Scariness is relative.

I was reading and laughing at the comments on Calah’s giveaway post that asked, “What terrifies you about homeschooling?” Parents confessing that they are afraid their children will grow up not knowing how to do long division, or that the kids will hate their parents for schooling them. We have all been there.

Then I clicked over to the local news and read, “Hopkins High senior charged with sex-trafficking cheerleading teammate.” The sixteen-year-old victim receives special education services. The eighteen-year-old senior prostituted her on Backpage-dot-com and deposited the money into her own bank account. When the case came to light at the suburban school, parents weren’t notified “because it didn’t happen on school grounds” — even though the 18-year-old tricked school officials into releasing the 16-year-old from school so she could take her to meet johns during school hours by impersonating the 16-year-old’s mother.

Yeah. Let me know when there’s a giveaway about that kind of fear.

 


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3 responses to “Scariness is relative.”

  1. Oh my goodness. That is terrifying.

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  2. This may seem to be an extreme case but the things I hear about high school these days, I can easily manage my homeschooling worries!

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    I suspect that horrifyingly bad outcomes are rare in both situations. Just goes to show, you can pick what worries you are going to live with.

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