Chemotherapy and home schooling (Non-Prophets)

This is a clip from episode 8.10 of the Non-Prophets podcast. Non-Prophets is a podcast affiliated with the Atheist Experiance tv show.

Being discussed is a thirteen year old illiterate, home-schooled boy with leukemia, who's parents are denying him chemotherapy.

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[Belloran24]

Christopher Hitchens might just be right--religion poisons every damn thing.

[bleesev2]

@navier1783 Are you sure that basic chemistry is less important then teaching your children what aliens could potentially be if we discovered them?

[bleesev2]

@slmbluebird Please listen to 1:52

[AngryLarry]

@slmbluebird haha The "FACT" is every single home schooled student out performs every single public school student and people on chemo lose the ability to read?.... nice argument noodle brain.

[slmbluebird]

Your video lacks logic. The FACT is that home-educated students out perform public school students. If these parents (who most likely graduated from a public school) cannot teach their child to read the word THE, maybe the public school is to blame. Also,maybe this boy couldn't read the word THE because he has been SICK a long time and has undergone chemotherapy which makes you SICK? Your lack of logic is appalling, but understandable. Your probably attended public education all your life.

[1RadicalOne]

I am not a violent person, but I can say that it would take a great deal of self-control for me to prevent myself from physically attacking these parents.

[patrickledford420]

this is awful they probably told him it was against god and he would burn and of coarse the kid would denie it its pure fucking evil

[navier1783]

Here in the UK, arguments like yours are leading to us being subjected to yearly eight hour assessment visits, interviews conducted with our kids without the parents being present, requirements to produce yearly plans and demonstrate that we've met those targets, standardised curricula etc. etc. I don't care if my daughter can recite the first twenty chemical elements; I want her to understand why hydrogen bonding means extraterrestrial life is likely to require water.

[peaceful0tiger]

I think homeschooling is actually how do I put it not a bad idea and not an unrealistic Idea.— their are though 2 things you really really do need. People qualified to do the teaching[in this case not present], and hours of homeschooling have to be such that they are similar to those that normal students get. Also Children should not be left isolated from those going to public schools, weather they go to private or are home schooled. And opinion that I hope is backed up.

[LuigiPeach]

Yes, and thanks to his inability he'll spend the next 80 years cleaning horseshit because he couldn't get a proper education and a normal job.

This only breeds moron and you're feeling compassionate for these idiots?

They are dumbing down human potential! Why shouldn't HE get a chance of becoming the person to discover the cure for aids?