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There's A Special Place in Hell ....

NC Man ties his son to a tree - makes him sleep outside tied up in that fashion for 2 nights - son dies with severe injuries, precise cause unknown.

There's a special place in hell for abusive parents like this. Which they should well realize, as they were reportedly church-going, god-fearing folk.
Rocky Mountain Telegram:
More than 300 of Tyler McMillan's family and friends gathered at a Greenville church Monday to mourn his passing, even as his father and stepmother faced their first appearance in Edgecombe County Superior Court.
Brice McMillan, 41, and Sandra McMillan, 36, are charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse in connection with the youngster's death. The 13-year-old Tyler was tied to a tree for 18 hours before he died Thursday, according to the arrest warrants released at his father and stepmother's hearing Monday morning.
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Reading the arrest warrants, Judge Joseph Harper Jr. said Tyler suffered serious bodily injury that resulted in bruising to the wrist, cuts to the entire body and missing flesh from the buttocks ? all results from being tied to the tree.
Brice McMillan told Edgecombe County deputies last week that he tied his son to a tree in the family's yard at 1110 Felton Farm Road because he had misbehaved, the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office said. Tyler slept tied to the tree Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
He was released from the tree Wednesday morning, but after another day of disobedience was forced to sleep outside that night, the sheriff's office said. Tyler was found unresponsive by his stepmother around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Paramedics responded to the family's home and he was pronounced dead at Heritage Hospital.
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Simply shocking.

Here are your candidates for Parents from Hell:
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Sandra and Brice McMillan

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Oh, yes - they home schooled the child according to neighbors - though the Rocky Mountain feed suggests parachial schools instead.
According to neighbors, the McMillans home-schooled their children and moved to the area a few months ago.
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I don't understand the smear against home schooling?

I have seen research that would indicate that home-schooled children do substantially better on standardized tests than public/parochial schooled children.

Just wondering........
 
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Mr.Blonde;1188159; said:
I don't understand the smear against home schooling?

I have seen research that would indicate that home-schooled children do substantially better on standardized tests than public/parochial schooled children.

Just wondering........
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Agreed. Taos was home schooled and he seems just fine.
 
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mstevmac;1188153; said:
What the hell are people thinking these days? Man oh Man, it's a freaking human being why the hell would you tie them up to a tree outside.
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Exodus 21:15 "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death."
Exodus 21:17 "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
Leviticus 20:9 "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him."
Mark 7:10 "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death."
 
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What these parents did to their son is unconscionable.

I don't see how it relates to home schooling, however. There are shitty parents who send their kids to public schools, too.

Similarly, there are good parents who home school, and good parents who send their kids to public schools.

Plenty of examples to be found on all sides.
 
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I don't understand the smear against home schooling?

I have seen research that would indicate that home-schooled children do substantially better on standardized tests than public/parochial schooled children.

Just wondering........
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I haven't seen many standardized tests in real life, though. I personally think a blend of both could be best home K-5, school 6-12.
Exodus 21:15 "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death."
Exodus 21:17 "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
Leviticus 20:9 "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him."
Mark 7:10 "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death."
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jwinslow;1188201; said:
I haven't seen many standardized tests in real life, though. I personally think a blend of both could be best home K-5, school 6-12.
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You might be on to something.

In the 1970s Raymond S. and Dorothy N. Moore conducted four federally funded analyses of more than 8,000 early childhood studies, from which they published their original findings in Better Late Than Early.

According to the Moores, "early formal schooling is burning out our children. Teachers who attempt to cope with these youngsters also are burning out."

Aside from academic performance, they think early formal schooling also destroys "positive sociability", encourages peer dependence, and discourages self worth, optimism, respect for parents, and trust in peers. They believe this situation is particularly acute for boys because of their delay in maturity.

The Moore's cited a Smithsonian Report on the development of genius, indicating a requirement for
1) much time spent with warm, responsive parents and other adults
2) very little time spent with peers
3) a great deal of free exploration under parental guidance.

Their analysis suggested that children need "more of home and less of formal school" "more free exploration with?...parents, and fewer limits of classroom and books," and "more old fashioned chores ? children working with parents ? and less attention to rivalry sports and amusements."
 
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God knows it's difficult to defend yokels like this, but be honest - which of you would think that tying your kid to a tree overnight would likely result in death? It's not as though North Carolina is fraught with night-hunting pit vipers.

Just seems like a massive rush to judgment without much in the way of facts. Horrible tragedy, that much is certain.
 
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jwinslow;1188201; said:
I haven't seen many standardized tests in real life, though. I personally think a blend of both could be best home K-5, school 6-12.
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I haven't heard of any. Half of the home schooling parents I have met were social misfits in school. Just sayin'........
 
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Taosman;1188378; said:
I haven't heard of any. Half of the home schooling parents I have met were social misfits in school. Just sayin'........
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I was running out the door, and this gets back to a point I wanted to make upon return.

It's not the schooling as much as how it is done... both public and home schooling. The home schooling can be the best around, but if they don't make the right efforts to socialize the kid, you can end up with some very studious but awkward kids (in my experience in college, anyway). The same can happen in HS as well.

If the teaching and socializing isn't done well, both schooling options can end up very badly for kids.
 
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