Posted on 03/01/2008 3:54:09 AM PST by Man50D
A California court has ruled that several children in one homeschool family must be enrolled in a public school or "legally qualified" private school, and must attend, sending ripples of shock into the nation's homeschooling advocates as the family reviews its options for appeal.
The ruling came in a case brought against Jonathan and Mary Long over the education being provided to two of their eight children. They are considering an appeal to the state Supreme Court, because they have homeschooled all of their children, the oldest now 29, because of various anti-Christian influences in California's public schools.
The decision from the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles granted a special petition brought by lawyers appointed to represent the two youngest children after the family's homeschooling was brought to the attention of child advocates.
"We find no reason to strike down the Legislature's evaluation of what constitutes an adequate education scheme sufficient to promote the 'general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence,'" the court said in the case. "We agree … 'the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education.'"
The words echo the ideas of officials from Germany, where homeschooling has been outlawed since 1938 under a law adopted when Adolf Hitler decided he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation's youth.
Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has said "school teaches not only knowledge but also social conduct, encourages dialogue among people of different beliefs and cultures, and helps students to become responsible citizens."
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California exodus turns to stampede
Go figure.
I am wondering if it would be cheaper for this family to move out of the state instead of “fighting the power.”
I’m not surprised. The NEA is extremely threatened by homeschooling.
There will never be justice as long as judges spout lies such as this as part of their rulings. The program is NOT designed to promote the welfare of ALL people...it promotes the agenda of the Left.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated.
The judges ruled in the case involving the Longs the family failed to demonstrate "that mother has a teaching credential such that the children can be said to be receiving an education from a credentialed tutor," and that their involvement and supervision by Sunland Christian School's independent study programs was of no value.
Nor did the family's religious beliefs matter to the court.
Their "sincerely held religious beliefs" are "not the quality of evidence that permits us to say that application of California's compulsory public school education law to them violates their First Amendment rights."
Their First Amendment rights mean nothing in the school if they were to express their unPC viewpoints, if they put something up on MySpace about the school on their own non-school time on a non-school computer.
This is a very alarming display of a power grab by an agenda driven judiciary who's way overstepped THEIR Constitutional role.
Outright tyranny, pure and simple.
Sad to say NY is looking better and better.
Not because it’s getting better, but because everyone is coming down to our level.
And Schumer is actually appearing to have flashes of sanity- now and then, maybe, sometimes.
This is the worst story about anti-homeschooers that I have seen and I am not a 100 percent proponent of homeschooling. There was no reason given except for nonsense about credidation. No grades on tests or classes were given. Are the kids idiots? Stupid? What is the 29 year old doing? That should give some indication on how they homeschooled. I am all about results. The kids who are homeschooled who are stupid should not be homeschooled because it obviously does not work for them. For kids, who are able to get the grades and do well on the state exams should be able to continue...simple as that.
BS. It was designed to place the general welfare into State welfare - DUMB and DUMBER.
(I could find a dozen lesson plans accommodating to child's ideas as being correct, no matter what the answer is)
That would be funny if it weren’t so true and so sad.
Actually, it's not. Upstate's looking like a ghost town. We're bleeding people and jobs, too :(
Note to the nation: If you still wanna vote for 'Rats and/or RINOs, you can't say you weren't warned...
I plan to leave the minute my daughter graduates high school in 2009.
Credentials mean nothing. Both my best friend and s-i-l have teaching degrees. They both told me that there was nothing about the degree that they felt made them better qualified to teach, or that taught them to teach.
I’m easily as smart as any public school teacher. I have a 4 year degree in meteorology-which is heavy in math and science. I know that those science courses are more rigorous that the ones required for a teaching degree.
I know where I’m weak and when and where to go for supplementation.
There is no way that I am less qualified to teach my own kids that some public school teacher.
The court’s and judge’s ruling is bogus. A one on one education is always superior to classroom settings if for no other reason than the time can be taken to make sure of mastery of the material.
You also learn as you go as a parent. That mother homeschooled several other children. She knows the material by now.
I know that. It’s just relatively.
At least we don’t have quite the problem with illegals that some places seem to have. It’s not Texico or Mexifornia.
I’d like to leave upon mr. mm’s retirement.
Job things are keeping us here for now. Can’t explain without risking compromising my screenname, but trust me, if it were in the cards, we’d be gone.
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