H/T Vox; more reasons to educate your kids at home

Apparently, summer vacation coincides with a statistically significant drop in the teen suicide rate, corresponding to an estimated 1000 lives lost each year to to the stresses of the government school through suicide alone.  In addition, there is an estimated 30% rise in violent crime due to the same stresses among adolescents during the school year--so it wasn't just me and Funky Winkerbean being beat up for our lunch money after all!

Now I'll be fair here; the study does not take a good look at whether homeschooling produces better or worse results, but it does appear that the "Lord of the Flies" atmosphere at too many of the government's schools produces a demonstrably nasty result.  Maybe it's time to revisit the idea that the way to teach kids how to behave like adults is to put them in a room full of other kids their age and turn our backs.