So when does the Revolution begin?
Who was it that said, “they’re coming for your children!”?
WHAT?!?!?! >:-(
This is just wrong...how much of America’s history is about homeschooling of children?? These are not CHILDREN OF THE STATE, d’oh!!!
Pray for this to be overturned by the SCOTUS!! Because I guarantee you it will be heading there before long! >:-(
ALL YOUR KIDS BELONG TO US
In other words, California courts believe that California children belong to the state.
If I lived in CA, I’d seriously consider relocating to another state.
Once again, the Calipetriedish is growing active rot. Will everyone just abandon the state or will they really fight for it?
Combine this with
*legislation protecting teachers who wish to “inculcate a preference for communism”
*banning of “discriminatory language” such as “mom and dad”
*requiring teaching of homosexuality as “normal” and “equally desirable lifestyle”
and you see where they’re going.
The left DEMANDS to indoctrinate your kids, and they WILL get them if you don’t fight back.
A Communist bastard in a black robe!
Flee the state.
“. . .parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.”
Can we say abortion too?
/mark
I have long thought that a Constitutional amendment should be put forward that enshrines the right of Parents to:
1) select the education system and method for their children
2) the right to determine the belief system that the child will be raised with
3) the right to determine the associations and friends the child will maintain or distance themselves from
4) the right to determine appropriate punishment for their children so long as such punishment does not cause physical injury requiring medical treatment
Constitutional right? Where in ANY state or the Federal Constitution is this right specifically DENIED? The mandate is for children to be sufficiently instructed in the basic arts of communication and reasoning to be functioning adults in today’s world, and the PUBLIC schools have failed in fulfilling that ideal, sometimes miserably and with catastrophic results.
Common sense, by its very lack, is truly an uncommon asset.
Tyrant.
And where in the Constitution does it say you MUST put your kids in a public or private school?
USSC here we come.
Freeper researchers, is this weasel a Democrat??
I’m assuming this is a state court ruling. It sounds like Justice H. Walter Croskey needs the Rose Bird treatment. Further, the legislature needs to modify the statutes so that future nut-case judges can’t easily write decisions like this.
The SCOTUS should have no trouble overturning this. If it doesn’t, the term “public school” should be officially deleted and replaced by “public reeducation camp”. Even the weasley language about private schools is BS, since the left has strangled vouchers.
The HSLDA has advised previously that homeschoolers can generally homeschool by qualifying as a “private full-time day school.” If one looks at the section of California law that govern, it's not tough to qualify.
I imagine that most homeschoolers in California probably qualify through this part of the law, or through association with a qualified private school. One wonders whether the appeals court meant to radically change the interpretation of the law to disqualify homeschoolers who use these legal avenues to homeschool (in which case they appear to have ignored the plain reading of the law), or whether the appeals court was merely stating that in THIS CASE, the legal requirements had not been met.
I read the opinion quickly the other day, and it appeared that the family was claiming some sort of umbrella-like association, and the appeals court specifically rejected their particular claim. I'm unsure that the court actually meant to negate the legality of everyone who is homeschooling through these legal methods.