Eastin said if home-schooled children "were exempted from compulsory education laws by the mere filing of an affidavit ... then there would be potentially thousands of children in California whose education would not be subject to any supervision whatsoever." Excuse me, Ms. Eastin. They're supervised by people who love them, not by uncaring gov't employees who view them as numbers, not children.
"it is incumbent upon the local school district to go out and check up and make sure these kids are in fact going to school,"
Sounds like the Gestapo.
He invited the families to "enroll in the district's home-based independent study program, a viable alternative to classroom instruction." Among the benefits, he said, are "using state- and district-approved textbooks" and "being enrolled in an approved" program,
Funny choice of words: "district's...independent study program". If it's approved and authorized by the district, just how independent could that study program be?
Yeah, homeschooling parents should just capitulate and use CA's failing reading curriculum, math curriculum, revionist history books, homosexual indoctrination, etc., etc. My, that sounds so attractive. Perhaps parents should say that they will enroll their children inindependent studies programs if they can use their own curriculum. Many parents use a religious-based curriculum. Are the public schools willing to accept that? If they refuse to accept that, will parents lose their right to choose a religious-based education for their children? This could go to court just on the religious issue alone.