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The govermnent and public have no right to a say in the education of any particular child.

LOL! Bullshit. You and I have a right to complain (and more) if a kid is so uneducated that he becomes a burden on, or even a positive danger to, a free society.

I refer you to the words of Mr. Jefferson:

"Of all the views of this law [for public education], none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe as they are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:206

I am not at all defending California's public education system -- but I side with Jefferson on this one. We don't need a bunch of ignorant fools deciding our future for us.

Are you watching the same election I am? We already have the ignorant fools deciding for us. I don’t see how parents exercising freedoms given them by God can do any worse than the government has done.

You and I have a right to complain (and more) if a kid is so uneducated that he becomes a burden on, or even a positive danger to, a free society.

LOL. Your comments are so divorced from reality that they approach absurdity. Now be honest--is a kid who is "uneducated and a burden on or a danger to a free society" more likely to come out of the public school system or a home-school family?

I am not at all defending California's public education system -- but I side with Jefferson on this one. We don't need a bunch of ignorant fools deciding our future for us.

Jefferson would be appalled at what our public school system has become. And if you want to see "ignorant fools" in action, visit your local teacher education college. My acquaintances who were studying "education" (one of whom even went to Harvard for graduate school) were some of the most ignorant people I ever knew. The fact that people like them make educational policy in this country is part of the reason I decided that homeschooling was the way to go.