I hope it encourages them to get some credentials.
Have you ever looked at the kind of ridiculous junk you have to go through to be certified as a teacher? It has little or nothing whatever to do with any realistic qualifications for teaching.
There are various helpful guides to homeschooling, but that's quite a different matter from being certified by some nutball school of education.
The credentials are called "parent."
What chapter of the NEA do you worship at?
My direct experience with getting teaching credentials is that it is a costly, time-consuming process that is frustrating beyond belief for someone who is reasonably intelligent. The classes required primarily exist to provide employment for those who got their PhD in “Education”.
I found that about 1 in 10 classes required to acquire a teaching credential is worthwhile. That one class is, again based on my direct experience, typically a class on different ways to approach teaching a concept (in my case the methods class was in math).
I got so fed up with it, I decided to get a job as a software engineer.
Just got off the phone with a friend who is a teacher. She’s burnt out, not because of the kids but all of the paperwork she has to hand into the state, leaving less time for her to teach.
"Union pleased with ruling
The ruling was applauded by a director for the state's largest teachers union.
"We're happy," said Lloyd Porter, who is on the California Teachers Association board of directors. "We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/07/MNJDVF0F1.DTL
The public school teachers can come to me for their credentials. I require that they be able to read with excellent comprehension, write legibly and logically, have a true and patriotic view of American history, be able to intelligently analyze and solve math problems, have no pederast or pedophile tendencies, and vow to never push their personal political agenda on the classroom.
Then maybe I’ll let them teach my kids. Until I am satisfied that they meet my standards, I’ll teach my own without apology.
no one in the school was ever concerned with our credentials when we had to assist with the homework, correct it with them,
and then review it all.
Private school teachers are often not credentialed. I don’t know if there’s any data out there showing that credentialed teachers are more effective than non-credentialed ones.
Don’t let your rock fall on your head when you crawl back under it.
We have homeschooled our seven children. I have a doctorate, but not in anything you are likely to think certifies me as a teacher. Neither my wife or I are “credentialed” in the government's or NEA’ opinion, but we are credentialed by the One who led us to home school and has blessed our children (three grown and away from home; two married -— ALL serving the Lord) with uncountable blessings.
Correct principles trump credentials any day of the school year.
Right, because it plain for anyone to see what a superior job the army of "credentialed" teaches in the government schools are doing.
And those boorish home schoolers, winning spelling bee's and geography bee's and such. HA! What, do they think "teaching" is about reading and writing and useless crap like that? Get serious people. It's about creating good little worker bees to labor for the glory of the greater good.
How are we going to accomplish that with people who haven't been to government approved "education collages" to get their indoctri...ah teaching credentials.
Ignorant rubes.
Because California's cree-denshuled teachers do such a wunnerful job edumacatin' the chilluns! Uh-huh. Yahsureyoubetcha!
Credentials? You got to be joking! How about some fisting-gate of credentials for you! In a free society the people credentiates the standards and the government, not the other way around. There is no control once those jack-a$$ in government are empowered just like those courts to prove.
I am a flight instructor, and guess what, the schools think I am not credentiated to teach there, even though I can teach any kid the technology behind flying and a high responsability task that flying it.
The credentials they want is be stupid and empowered retard thug just like them.
“I hope it encourages them to get some credentials.”
I hope it encourages them to get torches and pitchforks and burn the damn teacher’s union HQ down.
Congratulations!! You win the Most Ignorant Comment Award for this post.
Home schooled children have to take benchmark tests administered by California repeatedly throughout the year to make sure they are learning.
It might interest you to hear that home schooled children here in California are scoring a full two grade levels higher than their state educated contemporaries.
The teacher’s union head is happy because there was no other way they could compete against vastly better educated children that are home schooled. They were losing more students each year. So an activist judge just eliminated the competition so the useless state can keep their indoctrination camps running. Who cares if students are learning less and less each year.
Eliminating something that is producing better educated students on average is a BAD thing. This ruling is going to hurt us all in the long run because there will be more poorly educated people in our future.
So, let me get this straight: I graduated from high school (first person on one side of the family to ever do so), have at times been in charge of a $26 million airplane and up to 80 human lives, graduated from community college with high honors, sit on the board of two local non-profits, run my own business (part of which is being managing editor of a national trade magazine) and lead a Cub Scout pack, but I'm not qualified to teach my youngest son third grade Math and English? I also wasn't qualified to teach my daughter to read or teach any of the Math, English, Science or History I've imparted to them (a sixth grader and a fifth grader) so far?
With all due respect, I'd like an explanation on why you think I'm such an inept troglodyte dipstick.
good teachers are good teachers despite their “credentials”.
The only reason I made it through math during school is because I’m the daughter of an electrical engineer.
I only had 2 competent math teachers prior to my college years.
Thanks dad!