Comments on: Homeschooling – Illegal in California?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:10:00 +0000

They just redid the ruling.
Parents may home-school children without teaching credential in California.
http://californiahomeschool.net/howTo/updates.htm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:02:00 +0000

This scares the —- out of me. I thank God my youngest homeschooled child is in college now. I did raise him to be a good American citizen by teaching him to think for himself, how to ask questions, how to recognize fallacies, how to understand the laws of the land, and how to use the system to right a wrong.

I am planning to open a FREE private internet umbrella school open to any family who wants to school their child their way legally. That is what I intend to do about it.

By: montessori_lori

montessori_lori — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:16:00 +0000

I think your links got cut off, so I'm making them clickable here:

Politics, Freedom, Choice

and

Homeschooling and the Media

You raise some excellent points. I do wonder how many parents will take the time to become certified, if indeed that remains the law, and there is the larger question of "Should they have to be certified?" in the first place.

It will be interesting to see what develops!

By: Evenspor

Evenspor — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:05:00 +0000

I hope you wil forgive me for using links here, but I have so many thoughts on the subject that it is easier to link to articles I’ve already written than to take up a lot of space in your comments. I wrote an entry on my blog about how politics works and some arguments for allowing parents to homeschool without government interference:

http://desertspor.blogspot.com/2008/03/politics-freedom-choice.html

The other, more important entry was on my homeshool blog about why the court case doesn’t change anything in California. Most people outside of the state don’t realze that you can homeschool in California if you have teaching credentials, hire a tutor with credentials OR register your homeschool as a private school and keep a minimal amount of paperwork. This last is the option most homeschoolers in Calfornia take, which means that this ruling does not affect them at all:

http://sporschool.blogspot.com/2008/03/homeschooling-and-media.html

By: montessori_lori

montessori_lori — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:39:00 +0000

I know, I couldn't believe that the judge would come right out and say that public school's main goal is to create good little obedient citizens, not to help children learn. It was like the calling out the emperor for not wearing clothes!

I do agree that many teachers have very admirable intentions, but the "system" keeps them from truly helping kids learn and grow.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: ~L~

~L~ — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Any time a court at that level sets a precedent like this one, it’s a bad thing for the home educating parent at large. Not only are the judges admitting that public education is not about imbuing the children with knowledge, but about creating malleable little state subjects, they are stating in their decision that parents are unqualified to teach their children and have no right to even question the curriculum that is being used in the process.

Most teachers are fine human beings, but they are fully indoctrinated into that system: they perceive each child out of school as representative of money being taken away from the school. They believe– and many seem to agree– that more funds will equal a better education. Clearly, I am not in agreement with that.

As for my family, we will support the (Federal) Constitutional right of parents to educate their children as they see fit, everywhere in the US.