Topeka Family Homeschooled 16 Kids Real Good, When They Weren’t Beating ‘Em, Allegedly

[niyad]

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Topeka Family Homeschooled 16 Kids Real Good, When They Weren’t Beating ‘Em, Allegedly



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Topeka Councilman In Jail Just For Spanking His 16 Kids A Little On Their Bottoms, Probably


We come to this story from a place of concern. We come with a benefit of the doubt. We come with Hearts of Niceness, even. Topeka, Kansas, City Councilman Jonathan Schumm and his wife, Allison Nicole Schumm, have bonded out of jail on abuse charges — felonies among them — of at least one of their 16 children, 12 of whom were adopted or lived with them in foster care. We come knowing that people can snap on a kid, not out of malice but out of a lack of any more rope. And we wonder why the fuck social workers in the state of Kansas allowed this woman to adopt eight more children after she wrote this:
Here is my Desperate. My need to breath. Shortly after Kyrsten was born, I started getting sicker. I had been sick most of my life, but doctors had never been able to tell me what was wrong. After she was born I kept getting sicker and sicker. I was suffering from depression, bipolar, IBS, numbness in my hands, complex migraines, regular migraines, insomnia and fatigue. Being a mom of 8 at the time, I couldn’t understand why God would give me 8 beautiful children and then allow me to be unable to care for them.
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So what did Allison Nicole Schumm do after releasing her burden to God? She and her husband adopted eight more kids, and she homeschooled them, with three still in diapers. And the state of Kansas, apparently, was just peachy with that — if by “peachy,” you mean “they tried to disrupt the second family adoption due to ‘unfounded’ abuse allegations, but people ‘lobbied’ to let the Schumms hoard kids and why does this remind us of Justin Harris anyway?”

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Was Allison Schumm a natural at homeschooling (16 kids, with three infants)? In her own words, maybe not very. I’ve been thinking a lot about this and I’ve realized I did a pretty bad job of accomplishing what I had planned this semester. My goals this semester were primarily to figure out where my children belong in school and work on hearts. Secondarily, I wanted to work on math, grammar, spelling and penmanship, just enough to dip our toes into schooling so many.
I am not the type of person who is good at managing her time. I had to ask one of my friends to help me set up a chore chart and schedule, but once she did this I’ve been able to tweak it with very little trouble. And then we adopted again and guess what? My husband had to revamp the chore chart and schedule, but once again I was able to tweak it to make it work really well for us.


At the risk of being VERY MEAN, what is a woman who can’t handle a chore chart doing handling the educational needs of 16 children, several of whom (by her own account) come from traumatic backgrounds? And why are Kansas officials trying to make this the ideal?
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In any case, somebody should think of the goddamn children.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/596331/topeka-family-homeschooled-16-kids-real-good-when-they-werent-beating-em-allegedly#8dkSxITIe7wVCwT9.99

[KamaAina]

1. Topeka? Are they part of the Phelps cult?

[niyad]

2. not sure. but wbc seems pretty much limited to family members. be interesting to see if

they know the duggars, though.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Wtf? How on earth did this family

slip through the cracks. That is just an insane situation!