Homeschooling is NOT Imperiled in California

Ace of Spades ^ | March 06, 2008 | by Gabriel Malor

[jdm]

ping.

[SatinDoll]

Abusive and ignorant parents, who are poor teachers, give homeschoolers like myself and others a bad reputation.

[jdm]

LOL

[familyop]

I’m not a lawyer, but it appears to me that homeschooling should not be “imperiled” in Cali or any state.

“PIERCE v. SOCIETY OF THE SISTERS...”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=268&invol=510

“”the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children [268 U.S. 510, 535]” (FindLaw)

[calex59]

This guy is saying that homeschooling is not in danger but when he talks about it, it is in danger. My grandaughter is home schooled through a charter school, is her mother now in danger of being “re-educated” as the judges who made this ruling stated? I think the state needs to get out of the education business and let parents decide who shall educate their children. State education, especially in CA, means indoctrination into liberal beliefs.

[Maverick68]

Our overlords are only going to start listening when we rise up and show up on their doorsteps with pitchforks and torches....

[catbertz]

SEMPER VIGILANTIA

[mountainbunny]

I have voiced questions about this ruling before, specifically related to why the ruling only seemed to apply to two of the (at least) three children being home schooled in their home.

Thank you very much for this.

[marron]

Actually, if you care about your kids, if you care about your grand-kids, get them out of public school. Do not let the public schools anywhere near them.

You are crazy to put your kids into the care of people who hold you and everything you believe in, in so much contempt.

Building a network of private schools should be priority one for churches here. And, to be fair, a lot of them are doing it. What is the point of evangelizing people far away if you lose your own kids in the process?

This is just the beginning. As the Left gains in confidence, they will make it increasingly painful to oppose them.

[purpleraine]

...................mothers' teaching was “lousy,” “meager,” and “bad,”...............

So. he is running a public school?

[Lurking Libertarian]

I’m not a lawyer, but it appears to me that homeschooling should not be “imperiled” in Cali or any state. “PIERCE v. SOCIETY OF THE SISTERS

In Pierce, the State of Oregon, whipped into an anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant frenzy, closed all private schools and required all children in the State to attend public school. The Supreme Court held this unconstitutional, and held that parents had a right to send their children to private parochial schools. Although there is certainly some language in Pierce that would support the right to home-school, technically, the issue of home-schooling was not before the Court.

[familyop]

Thank you.

[Gene Eric]

Sad that dramatic news about loss of liberty tends to mask news about loss of liberty.

[Marie2]

“lousy,” “meager,” and “bad,”....

describes the teaching at my public school. How about hauling parents in who let their kids go THERE?

I am not being serious, and I do not condemn any FReeper who sends his child to public school. That is YOUR business, they are your kids, do what you think is best.

My point is, suppose 1/3 of home school kids never graduated high school, suppose home schooled kids had the highest suicide rate vis a vis private and public school kids, had the lowest college acceptance rate, had the lowest standardized test scores, had high drug abuse rates, had chronic problems with teachers having sex with students, had high vandalism rates, had the highest teen pregnancy rate, had the highest illiteracy rates, had the highest gang membership rates, had the highest percentage of kids incarcerated? Home schooling would be made illegal!

Yet all the above statements apply to our California public schools!

And parents are supposed to quit home schooling and put there kids into that cesspool!

“Day of Silence,” anyone?

[familyop]

"To be a private school in California, all the parent has to do is be "capable of teaching" the required subjects...

It's going to be very interesting again in California and in other states.

The anti-homeschooling efforts are not only supported by teachers' and homosexual activist groups. Think a little more about why some people might want public school curriculums to be as they are. There's more.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It looks like some of these "charter schools" that allow most of the instruction to be done at home by the parents are scams.

Either the parents should homeschool their kids completely themselves, or else they should enroll their kids formally in a charter school.

[Fundamentally Fair]

My grandaughter is home schooled through a charter school, is her mother now in danger of being “re-educated” as the judges who made this ruling stated?

Can you point to that in the ruling? Have you read the ruling?

[Mr Rogers]

To be a private school in California, all the parent has to do is be "capable of teaching" the required subjects in the English language and offer instruction in the same "branches of study" required to be taught in the public schools. They also have to keep a register of enrollment at their "school" and a record of attendance. Once a year they have to file an affidavit with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction with things like their names and address, the names of the students and their addresses, a criminal background check (since we don't want unsupervised felons teaching kids), and their attendance register. That's it.

That's all!!!

YGBSM! And please note, you have to be able to convince the State that you are running a private school, and that you are 'qualified' to teach there...

Glad I left California!