Kentucky ‘free range’ family loses custody of 10 kids over apparent ‘unschooling’

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18. It is the piles of garbage, broken glass and nails around the property

that concerns me the most. There is nothing wrong with raising children to enjoy the outside and getting dirty is a part of that experience. It is a whole other thing to allow garbage to pile up. I would curious if their accumulation of garbage has (or will) contaminate their water source. Also, the garbage will attract wildlife and while they may shoot it, the wildlife may get one of the smaller kids first.

If I were the neighbor I would be pissed off at the father stealing water from the neighbor's property. I hardly see the parents as setting all that good examples for their kids. They are teaching them to steal (the water), to threaten people with violence (dad threatening to shoot the neighbor), the accumulation of garbage, broken glass and nails does not speak well of respecting your environment, and so on.

Take the kids out of the woods and into an urban environment and it would be interesting to see how they fare. While they are allowed to pick and choose what they learn I don't see how they are exposed to the tools they would need to achieve an actual education beyond the outdoor world. How can the parents claim that their children are able to achieve a typical type of education if those tools are not readily available to their kids? If any of them chose to go to college (or trade school) how do the parents expect them to qualify for entrance to any type of higher education? The kids are going to be way far behind the peers of their own ages. I think that most parents would not want their kids anywhere near this family.

Chores don't seem to be a learning experience given how trashed their property is.

Now this type of family would be loved by the far right Conservatives. The parents are raising their kids to be educationally ignorant, they are no threat to the 1%ers nor will they be likely to ever vote. It is part of the dumbing down of society.