Posted on 03/06/2008 7:32:18 AM PST by edcoil
LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
Thousands of homeschoolers in California are left in legal limbo by an appeals court ruling that homeschooling is not a legal option in the state and that a family who has homeschooled all their children for years must enrol their two youngest in state or private schools. Justice H. Walter Croskey in a written opinion said, "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children."
The sweeping February 29th ruling says that California law requires "persons between the ages of six and eighteen" to be in "public full-time day school," or a "private full-time day school" or "instructed by a tutor who holds a valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught".
This is what the whole country can expect when the leftists get into power. The public school system functions very well as a device to
- replace the family as the giver of moral principles
- change the child’s sexual morality to one that conforms to good communist principles
- destroy any pride in the USA, in keeping with communist principles of tearing down the USA and then rebuilding it as a communist paradise
- teach the children to report their parents for infractions involving firearms, “hate speech”, intolerance.
- inculcate atheistic and materialistic principles so the kids won’t have anything to live for, any hope, and will become nihilistic robots like all good leftists
- teach useless information and avoid teaching English, math, history and other useful subjects
I think it was Joe Sobran who said that in the past 100 years, our education system has gone from offering Greek and Latin classes in grammar schools to offering remedial English classes in colleges.
“A Republican, former business lawyer, Croskey could be labeled conservative, but he doesn't seem ideological.”
Certainly not on matters of social values!!!
“Croskey seldom gets reversed or depublished — despite producing prodigious numbers of published opinions in complex, cutting-edge cases. Indeed, he often shows the way for the Supreme Court,..”
>>Justice H. Walter Croskey
>>Tyrant.
This same judge ruled that lesbians have full parental rights and he also stomped on punitive precedents in order to sock Phillip Morris with massive penalties during the tobacco witch-hunt.
“So when does the Revolution begin?”
It’s already started. The “authorities” just don’t realize it yet.
How did this modern day Roland Frieseler get onto the bench?
California teachers are already complaining that the classrooms are already overcrowded.
“Yes, it will be overturned.”
absolutely. On the other hand, if every homeschool parent insisted on every accomodation and due process that was available at every turn, including showing up every day complaining about everything that is wrong with the educational system, one can imagine that the right to homeschool would be returned rather quickly as well.
If you are in California and you have kids, and you homeschool, you’ve simply got to move because this isn’t going to stop. The schools have every financial incentive to keep pressuring homeschoolers.
Damn! Well, I would have been right 99% of the time.
“You some lawyer or somethin’?”
No, just a homeschooling parent.
Here's HSLDA’s take on it, by the way:
Legal Option:
- Qualify as a private school
- Use a private tutor
- Enroll in a private school satellite program, taking “independent study”
[Option 1 Requirements - Qualify as a private school]
Attendance:
- None
Subjects:
- Same as the public schools and in the English language
Qualifications:
- Must be “capable of teaching”
Notice:
- File an annual affidavit with the Superintendent of Public Instruction between October 1 and 15
Recordkeeping:
- Maintain an attendance register
Testing:
- None
As you can see, although the court may be semantically correct that no one in California may “homeschool,” those who actually homeschool may do so legally by informing the state that they are a private school, by teaching a similar curriculum as is found in the public schools (that only means teaching similar subjects, not using similar texts, etc.), by declaring that one is “capable of teaching,” by keeping an attendance register, and by filing an affidavit to the effect of these requirements once per year.
Although my state, Maryland, doesn't call this “qualifying as a private school,” our requirements aren't very dissimilar.
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Don’t worry folks, this ruling would get shot down by substantive due process. There are several SCOTUS cases such as Meyers v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters that lend support home schooling.
This judge is a moron. There is no constitutional basis for abortion, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or gay marriage, but we have all of that.
I think the concern is that they cannot properly brainwash homeschooled children.
Judicial activism that would argue for a McCain victory, in spite of his questionable conservative credentials.
Keep your powder dry!
Neither. The inhabitants of the state will merely accept what is merely the latest assault on any remaining rights they maintain for now.
>>Well, there you go.<<
If you are talking about California, I think “there” is a good place NOT to go. ;)
It’s not just the control of the kids, it’s the money. The schools get a given amount of money for every student in the school. That means more money for the unions and the teachers and employees.
“As you can see, although the court may be semantically correct that no one in California may “homeschool,” those who actually homeschool may do so legally by informing the state that they are a private school, by teaching a similar curriculum as is found in the public schools (that only means teaching similar subjects, not using similar texts, etc.), by declaring that one is “capable of teaching,” by keeping an attendance register, and by filing an affidavit to the effect of these requirements once per year.”
APPLAUSE!!!
Thanks again.
Since the internet reached maturity and computers with high speed access became a common commodity, public schools became obsolete - except as daycare centers, cafeterias for the gov. to feed the poor, and indoctrination centers.
In Cal., homeschooling may be illegal, but it just means the law is unconstitutional. It clearly violates the pursuit of happyness.
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