Homeschooling is not the issue at hand

Homeschooling Plano Family - Please watch this video prior to reading this post.

I'll wait.

I am not a news advocate and I do not watch the news consistently.  I remember when I was younger, CNN was ALWAYS ON whether I was with my parents or at a family members compound.  In undergrad, I tried to watch the news to stay informed on my surroundings.  Unfortunately, I went to school in a small town and a report came on that stated there had been robberies in an area of town that I frequented.  At that point, I preferred to indulge in my personal ignorance.  The negatives stories were to close for comfort I guess because I could identify all the locations.  I read articles but I preferred not to watch the news.  Any way, I happened to allow Fox News surface on my television after some show a week ago and the report from the above link was on.  I have recently found myself wallowing in the silence more than I prefer but after watching the video, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and was purely repulsed.

Brief Rap-up:
A mother calls the local television station to address how she believes her neighbor is scaring homeschooling parents (as a whole) from executing their duties.
(A little background...).  The mother has two children who she home-schools.  During the day, the woman sends her children to the backyard to release some much need energy.  Per the woman's perspective, her children are scared to go outside because one of their adjacent neighbors plays loud obscene music that has a high concentration of vulgarity.  The mother insists such a reaction to her children playing outside is sending a rift in the homeschooling community.  Now if you watched the entire video, you will notice that the neighbor (playing the loud music) asked for the children's play set relocate to another section of the yard - away from their shared fence.  The mother did not want to complied with that request.  The neighbor took it to the Home Owners Association (HOA) and nothing came of that.  Things took a turn for the worse and in retaliation, the neighbor began playing  music with less than family-friendly lyrics.  The woman went on to state that she has not received any other noise complaints from other neighbors.

My initial response was, "I wonder if the neighbor works during the evenings?"  My second thought was, "the title of this report is misleading because it has nothing to do with homeschooling parents."  (Oh, my favorite part of this story was at the end with the guest in the news studio).  Concluding the report, the news anchor invited a guest to provide his thoughts on the report.  He said, this seems to be an unfortunate situation with two neighbors disagreeing.  He continued by saying the report had nothing to do with with homeschooling.  That is when the news anchor continued to insinuate that the homeschooling parents are in danger of being bullied by there loud neighbors.  (I mentally shut down at that point from the direction this conversation was going in).  What a joke.

Clearly, if you watched the entirety of the video, you would agree with the man that stated this was just a circumstance of neighbors clashing.  I have heard that Fox News conducts their news in a less than fashionable behavior but I never realized how blatant and brazen this channel conducts itself.