I called my state rep and talked about this. I asked why homeschoolers are being held accountable for a government agencies failure.
Apparently they are getting a lot of negative feed back from homeschoolers. Which I would expect from my area. We have over a thousand home school families.
I stated that I pulled my kids out of public school because it was failing my kids. Not only that but also that my wife was called to the school because my son brought a lego gun to school. It was a half centimeter square. They were also told that they could not bring a bible to school. This is the kind of government intrusion that resulted in my kids being pulled from school and now they know.
I also stated that I would not be quiet about this. That I would drag out how much this rep Chang received from public schools. Also how this was not homeschoolers but a failure of CHP.
Like I told my senator and rep.
I don’t have kids but we cannot allow state agencies to fail and use their failures to go after people who are completely innocent. This woman and her kids were already in the system because of a known pattern of ongoing abuse and protective services should have been conducting regular inspections of the home all along.
We had a local representative years ago called Peter Mills who decided to regulate homeschooling at the behest of the state teacher’s union.
When the hundreds of homeschoolers showed up at the capitol to speak at the committee hearing, the matter was thrown out of the committee. His proof that homeschooling was needing monitoring was that someone told him so.
Never fight against a group that has all day to fight back, who can band together, marshal a cogent argument, and provide extra credit to the kids while doing so.