GOOD ARTICLE, BADLY WRITTEN
Mike Cassidy needs to go back to J-school. No way should a news piece ever start like this:
Sure, I was an eye-roller.
I mean, we all know about home-schooling, right? Wacky families on the political fringes. Protective parents sheltering their kids from reality. Hopeless nerds who break out in hives at the thought of a school dance.
Then Julie Boiko hit me right between the eyes. OK, she didn’t punch me. She’s too cool. Too collected. Too practiced at smacking down the questions about being 17 and home-schooled since kindergarten.
What dreck! I’m pretty sure the assignment was not for Cassidy to write his autobiography. It’s too bad, too. The real subject of the piece is a successful HEK.