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The Dangers of Homeschooling!

http://www.ajc.com/news/fayette/boy-13-dies-after-1423024.html 

 

 

Boy, 13, dies after falling through skylight at airport

 Investigators believe Austin Bailey, of Temple, climbed onto the roof of the main hangar and stepped onto a skylight, Capt. Rosanna Dove with the Peachtree City Police Department said in a news release. The skylight gave way and Austin fell into the hangar, Dove said.

The teen was transported to Piedmont-Fayette Hospital, where he died shortly after 1 p.m.

The hangar is currently being re-roofed by a Villa Rica company that employs the boyfriend of Austin's mother, Dove said. Austin, who was home schooled, had accompanied his soon-to-be stepfather to work, Dove said.

"He just climbed up on the roof," Dove said. "Nobody was up there with him."

A spokeswoman for the airport declined to discuss the incident when reached by telephone Friday afternoon.

Airport officials have contacted OSHA to investigate, Dove said.A 13-year-old west Georgia boy died Friday afternoon after falling 25 feet at the Peachtree City-Falcon Field Airport.

Investigators believe Austin Bailey, of Temple, climbed onto the roof of the main hangar and stepped onto a skylight, Capt. Rosanna Dove with the Peachtree City Police Department said in a news release. The skylight gave way and Austin fell into the hangar, Dove said.

The teen was transported to Piedmont-Fayette Hospital, where he died shortly after 1 p.m.

The hangar is currently being re-roofed by a Villa Rica company that employs the boyfriend of Austin's mother, Dove said. Austin, who was home schooled, had accompanied his soon-to-be stepfather to work, Dove said.

"He just climbed up on the roof," Dove said. "Nobody was up there with him."

A spokeswoman for the airport declined to discuss the incident when reached by telephone Friday afternoon.

Airport officials have contacted OSHA to investigate, Dove said.

 

Hoping to drive AW out of lurking :) 


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Re: The Dangers of Homeschooling!

  • The seems more like the dangers of let your idiot boyfriend take your kid to dangerous work day.

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  • He fell through the skylight because he was home-schooled, and not because the adult he was with is an idiot?

    HowTF does a kid get allowed to climb onto a roof and climb onto a skylight? 

    Somehow I feel this will hamper any plans of matrimony for the kid's poor mom.

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  • I notice they say there will be an OSHA investigation.

    My dad is a risk manager for a company that insures construction sites and small machine shops and the like. He does accident investigation, site inspection, and teaches OSHA certification to employees. He'd have an aneurysm if this happened on one of their job sites. I can't even imagine all that would have to go wrong for a 13 year old to be alone on the roof.

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  • I think there are more dangers of homeschooling besides this instance, but that's just my biased opinion. The boy should have been at home, doing schoolwork, not at a job site with someone who is clearly unqualified to watch this kid. IMO, the boy should have been at school, a heck of a lot more safe place than an airport hangar!
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  • Maybe this was his schoolwork for that day.
  • Someone's mom didn't understand the difference between homeschooling and farming your kid out as unpaid child labor.
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