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post #1 of 11
10/3/04 at 4:37pm
Thread Starter 
My mom, who is no fan of homeschooling, just called and told me that on a recent Law and Order homeschoolers were depicted "very, very negatively." Does anyone know what the episode was? I haven't watched L & O in a while because it gives me nightmares.
post #2 of 11
10/3/04 at 5:26pm
Hi! I've never posted here before but have been lurking because I'm considering pulling my 5 yo ds out of his Kindergarten and homeschooling. I saw the episode you were referring to last night. It made me pretty mad because I think people who know nothing about hs would come away thinking homeschoolers are paranoid control-freaks.

Basically, this mom homeschooled her kids because she wanted the outside world to have no influence on them. She was a paranoid control freak who brainwashed her sons into believing that everyone on the outside was out to get them and she was the only one they could trust, and she controlled every aspect of their lives. She convinced her older son that CPS was going to remove the 2 boys and put them into foster care, where they'd be beaten and killed. She brainwashed him into thinking they'd be better off dead. She went out shopping (to give her an alibi) and left a loaded gun in plain view at home. Her older son then shot the younger and the gun jammed before he could turn it onto himself. She was eventually tried for facilitating the murder.

Yep, pretty much made homeschoolers look like they are crazy, though they did show a very short clip of a hs "friend" who was more normal. I wasn't very proud of L & O for producing a show like this.

Jenny
post #3 of 11
10/3/04 at 5:35pm
Thread Starter 
Usually these shows are based on true stories... I don't recall anything like that in the news!
post #4 of 11
10/3/04 at 8:01pm
I had seen it before (rerun I believe) and it was awful. If its the episode I am thinking it was they also had a fellow homeschool mama friend (of the "crazy" homeschool mama) who was suppose to be the more normal homeschooler. Ughh.. and my family loves law and Order too (sigh...)
post #5 of 11
10/8/04 at 9:12pm
I refuse to watch that show at all anymore, due to the perpetually negative stance they take on AP and NFL.
post #6 of 11
10/8/04 at 9:44pm
Not Law and Order, but on an episode of "Yes, Dear" () one of the moms pulled her son out of school because he had acted up and she didn't want him being labelled as the "bad kid" like she was. They kind of made fun of hsing a bit, but the mom said how hsing was becoming more and more popular, she bought a complete curriculum, etc. Her first day didn't go well, she had a subtraction problem on a white erase board and the kid wouldn't answer it. (He was 5, btw). The mom was upset because she didn't want to fail at this because no one thought she could do it, and her hubby reminded her that she doesn't do things the way other people do. Everyone came home the next day to find the mom and boy in the kitchen finishing off a cake. She showed what he learned (there were 6 eggs in the carton, they used 2, so 4 were left, and he spelled cake) and everyone was excited. But then the boy said he wanted to go back to school to be with his friends, and the mom felt badly for taking him out of school and she went back to the teacher and grovelled for him to be let back in. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but not terribly positive either.
post #7 of 11
10/9/04 at 11:08am
Yes Dear had a bad episode a few years ago on extended nursing. I have not watched the show since.
Don't these shows see that they are loosing people by talking negative about them? Why can't they have a positve about homeschoolers or AP families?
post #8 of 11
10/9/04 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Breathless Wonder
I refuse to watch that show at all anymore, due to the perpetually negative stance they take on AP and NFL.

Me, too.
post #9 of 11
10/9/04 at 9:31pm
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Originally Posted by APMomof3
Yes Dear had a bad episode a few years ago on extended nursing. I have not watched the show since.
Don't these shows see that they are loosing people by talking negative about them? Why can't they have a positve about homeschoolers or AP families?
I know. It's really unfortunate. I think they feel they need to appeal to the majority, and they feel the majority is not AP/NFL or homeschooling. They think that by doing these shows featuring extended bf'ing, homeschooling, and the like they are handling issues that parents struggle with. Perhaps they just don't understand that for many people these things aren't "issues" to be struggled with... it's just life, KWIM? Some people say negative publicity is still publicity but it would really be nice to see people protrayed just living it without it being a huge deal full of misinformation.
post #10 of 11
10/10/04 at 11:33am
What is NFL? I take it isn't football related like I first thought and was wondering how L&O made the National Football League look bad, lol.
post #11 of 11
10/10/04 at 11:46am
Morgaine, LOL!

NFL=natural family living
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