Home-schooling link tenuous

JAMES TARANTO defends homeschoolers in The Wall Street Journal. As he points out the attack on homeschoolers in The New York Times looks even more fishy due to this.

The report goes on to concede that "for sure, the fact that Ms. Jacks's children last attended school in March in no way accounts for their deaths." The home-schooling link looks even more tenuous when you look at the Washington Post account of the case. On Sunday, the Post reports, Mayor Adrian Fenty fired six child-welfare workers, saying they "just didn't do their job." It turns out that the girls' absence from school was noted at the time:

Also Ms Jacks never filled out the notice to homeschool required of public school parents withdrawing their children from public school. School officials elected to take the Godmothers word that Ms. Jacks was homeschooling. No attempt to confirm this allegation was ever made by the school.