Please cite the portion of the California Education Code that requires a homeschooler to have teaching credentials if he registers as a private school.
It's not there.
This family didn't register as a private school, didn't file an affidavit of attendance, etc., and therefore don't qualify for the private school exemption (that homeschoolers get).
I do NOT know California Law in that regard. However what I do know (unless you demonstrate to all the rest of us that the article misrepresented the ruling) is that FROM THIS POINT onward, you must have teacher credentials in order to teach at home, or operate as a private school, etc. Or likely if not yourself you’ll have to hire one. This is no doubt partly a job creations program. That is painfully obvious. Unions are sorta good at that and no question this legislation moves to that end. As to the family’s actions, that is largely irrelevent in this matter of punishing everyone else for someone’s alleged oversight.