Life in prison is too good for these 2 monsters!!

[Namcot]

Those kids have more than medical problems to sort out.

If you read the articles I linked to or search for more articles online regarding this case, even the oldest ones didn't know when asked by the authorities what medicines and pills were or that Police Officers existed.

They have the knowledge of a toddler from not having spend a single day in school and receiving the education and mental development they should have had.

It's going to be a long haul for all 13 children to fit into society and be able to earn money to live on and care for themselves.

Very sad.

[rbn]

Originally Posted by alexora

As long as California allows any person to officially designate their home as a 'school' in order to home-school their kids, this kind of shit is to be expected.

I doubt many people designate their home as a school on the state's records. I may be in the dark on that one. I haven't looked at any data for how many homes are registered as schools. This seems far fetched to me.

Home Schooling is common but it does not require designating your home as a school.

I hope they can keep them grouped together for each other's sake. Living in such conditions with brothers and sisters and being cast into solitude without them seems unhealthy.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by rbn

I doubt many people designate their home as a school on the state's records. I may be in the dark on that one. I haven't looked at any data for how many homes are registered as schools. This seems far fetched to me.

Home Schooling is common but it does not require designating your home as a school.

I hope they can keep them grouped together for each other's sake. Living in such conditions with brothers and sisters and being cast into solitude without them seems unhealthy.

Read before you doubt...

"One of the things that was interesting was, he [Turpin] set up his own home school so the kids were accounted for and not really seen by anybody," said Sherryll Kraizer, a child-abuse prevention expert and the founder of the Coalition for Children.

The California Department of Education lists the Turpin address, where the family has lived since 2014, as the location of the Sandcastle Day School, with David Turpin as principal.

In order to run a home-school in the state, Turpin would have had to fill out forms each year but there is no legal obligation for the state to visit and assess the environment."

Source

The Turpins Won’t Be the Last
How lax homeschooling laws protect child abusers

The Turpins are shocking, but they are not without precedent. All families, of course, can mask horror underneath cul-de-sac banality. But the Turpins’ horror was likely kept hidden by a very specific tool. We know now that the parents homeschooled their children under the auspices of the Sandcastle Day School, which is simply the name they used when they filed a private school affidavit with the state of California. Understanding how the Turpins got away with what they did for so long is also partly a matter of understanding homeschooling law, and of the problems that attend homeschooling deregulation. You can hide almost anything when nobody is watching.

Despite California’s reputation as a liberal nanny-state, its homeschooling regulations are among the loosest in the country. Parents don’t need a teaching credential to homeschool. They aren’t required to furnish any proof of academic progress, and while homeschooling families can file a Private School Affidavit, the affidavit triggers no oversight. “In California, almost anyone can open a private school by filing an affidavit with the state,” The New York Times explained. “California is one of 14 states that only ask parents to register to create a home school, and in 11 other states, including Texas, parents are not required to submit any documentation at all.”

Source

[Namcot]

Fucking assholes!

http://usatoday.com/story/news/...ia/1048480001/

There should be a law!

If you need to pass several tests to get a driver's license, you should also be required to pass psychological and mental tests before being allowed to have children, in wedlock or out of wedlock.

[SLAYER]

Life, in solitary confinement. Concrete cell, no windows, with nothing but a mat on the floor. A BRIGHT light in the center of the ceiling that never shuts off. Much worse than death.

[Namcot]

Originally Posted by alexora

“California is one of 14 states that only ask parents to register to create a home school, and in 11 other states, including Texas, parents are not required to submit any documentation at all.”[/INDENT]

I am not familiar with the other states but I know it's very difficult to get a hair stylist license in Texas or a license to transport FISH in a refrigerated food truck compared to getting a home school license.

[NoTrouble]

I only caught a small part of this this morning on the news but I sure hope that the kids can be salvaged to have some sort of normalcy in their lives now.

I need to read the whole story before commenting further BUT it is clear that the "parents" have a special place in hell reserved for them.

[Karmafan]

Wonder if it will end up being some sort of a cult or Religious thing that made then do that? I just can't see 2 parents doing such a thing to 13 of their children without some sort of a bizarre reasoning.

[rbn]

Originally Posted by alexora

Read before you doubt...

"One of the things that was interesting was, he [Turpin] set up his own home school so the kids were accounted for and not really seen by anybody," said Sherryll Kraizer, a child-abuse prevention expert and the founder of the Coalition for Children.

The California Department of Education lists the Turpin address, where the family has lived since 2014, as the location of the Sandcastle Day School, with David Turpin as principal.

In order to run a home-school in the state, Turpin would have had to fill out forms each year but there is no legal obligation for the state to visit and assess the environment."

Source

The Turpins Won’t Be the Last
How lax homeschooling laws protect child abusers

The Turpins are shocking, but they are not without precedent. All families, of course, can mask horror underneath cul-de-sac banality. But the Turpins’ horror was likely kept hidden by a very specific tool. We know now that the parents homeschooled their children under the auspices of the Sandcastle Day School, which is simply the name they used when they filed a private school affidavit with the state of California. Understanding how the Turpins got away with what they did for so long is also partly a matter of understanding homeschooling law, and of the problems that attend homeschooling deregulation. You can hide almost anything when nobody is watching.

Despite California’s reputation as a liberal nanny-state, its homeschooling regulations are among the loosest in the country. Parents don’t need a teaching credential to homeschool. They aren’t required to furnish any proof of academic progress, and while homeschooling families can file a Private School Affidavit, the affidavit triggers no oversight. “In California, almost anyone can open a private school by filing an affidavit with the state,” The New York Times explained. “California is one of 14 states that only ask parents to register to create a home school, and in 11 other states, including Texas, parents are not required to submit any documentation at all.”

Source

I understand what you're saying but in normal homeschooling households, the children do their work and submit it. They get graded on it and move onto higher grade level with their own progress. Ron Paul has a home-schooling curriculum which adheres to many of the older American values.

No one wants anything like this to ever happen again. Too many schools are getting away from teaching anything worth learning anymore. Many parents feel the best way to teach thier children proper values is home-schooling. In a normal curriculum, they can learn just as much and more with families that can provide their children with better tools to fulfill their educational responsibilites.

These people used this to their demented advantage and I'm glad they were finally caught. Monsters like these cannot be used as the standard to remove our ability to teach our own children in America.

[carolina73]

Blaming home schooling for what these dirtbags did sounds like somone's politics. It is not a real place to put the blame here. Their were family members that knew something was wrong and didn't make that phone call.