[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

If parents in California lose their right to home-school their children, they should simply leave the state. I can't figure out why more of California's productive people haven't long since departed that Marxist enclave.

[Paul Ross]

Beats me! But where can they go? Minnesota (Wellstone & Dayton)? South Dakota (Daschle & Conrad)?

[Sangamon Kid]

If parents in California lose their right to home-school their children, they should simply leave the state.

No retreat. If homeschool fails in that state, it will be open season in every other state. The good folks of California should make a stand and expose the government educational system and the NEA for what they are - power hungry, socialist bureaucracies.

[giotto]

There are three national labs here in California. Much of the research and development of anti-terrorism devices and systems is done here. Do you really want those scientists, the vast majority of whom are more conservative than you are, to abandon this research to some liberal who happens to have a Ph.D ?

As for home schooling, the trick is to never enroll your child in a public school. If he has never once been in their data base, he will never be missed. But if you take a child out of public school in order to home school, he's already in their radar, and there could be trouble.

[Hostage]

No need to leave the state. Drive to the Nevada border, rent a cheap mailing address or apartment and tell the liberals controlling the state your family has moved.

Unless there are neighbors who insist on turning a family in, the state liberals will never know whether a family moved UNTIL THEY ESTABLISH A CHILD REGISTRY "FOR THE CHILDREN", which is likely to be on their agenda.

But Sangamon is correct, parents should file suit against the public school interpretation, obtain temporary ruling in their favor while waiting for a decision and then if necessary take their case all the way to the Supreme Court.