A Call for Judge’s Impeachment in California Homeschooling Ruling

Learning By Grace ^ | March 8, 2008 | Mimi Rothschild

[Mimi Rothschild]

A Call for Judge’s Impeachment in California Homeschooling Ruling

California Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a February 28th, 2008has ruled that, “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.”

Judge Croskey’s ruling states "keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children's lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents' 'cloistered' setting."

“Judge Croskey has clearly allowed his personal bias to override his responsibility to impartial interpretation of the laws. The Judge has egregiously breached his duties”, says Rothschild. While she respects his right to express his opinion and his right to choose how he educates his children, she believes “Croskey needs to go.”

This ruling subject the parents of 166,000 students throughout the state of California to face the state Supreme Court for criminal sanctions. Many homeschool advocates believe that Croskey’s ruling infringes on civil rights, including freedom of religion. “The issue here is not the constitutionality of homeschooling. The freedom to educate one’s child according to one’s convictions has already been the law in the United States for almost three decades”, says Rothschild. “The issue is that this Judge has crossed the line. He is not interpreting law, he is creating a new law”, sttates Rothschild. He has abused his power. Justice Walter Croskey needs to be held accountable through the mandated procedures that address judicial misconduct of this calibre - disbarment and impeachment. Rothschild does not stop there. She believes that in order to prevent this kind of judicial abuse of power in the future, Croskey should “Judge Walter Croskey should also be held accountable for the financial damages that his misguided ruling has incurred to the thousands of California citizens. Additionally, this ruling and any other ruling he has made that violates the laws of the land must be reversed”, says Rothschild Mimi Rothschild is the CEO and Co-Founder of Learning By Grace, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of online Christian PreK-12 educational programs. As the homeschooling mother of 8 children, Rothschild advocates for educational freedoms. She can be reached at Mimi@LearningByGrace.org

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