[Wallace T.]

While the ruling is narrowly based, it is worthy to note that the justices applied rulings dating back to the 1950s requiring that children be educated by a public school, an accredited tutor, or an accredited private school. Mandatory universal education is an old concept, dating to the 19th Century. It is fundamentally statist and violative of personal liberty. However, it was tolerable because until the 1960s, local school boards were essentially autonomous. Even then religious minorities, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, atheists, and Catholics, were sometimes forced to attend public schools where a sort of generic Protestantism was the prevailing worldview.

The development of state education authorities and the Federal Department of Education eviscerated local control, along with Supreme Court rulings from the Warren and Burger eras that remain in place. The liberals and the NEA have been frustrated at the rise of home schooling. As soon as they have even a possibility of ending home schooling, they will pursue it.

Advice to conservative families with children in California: leave the state and don't look back.

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Advice to conservative families with children in California: leave the state and don’t look back.

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They should stay and fight unless their children are immediately threatened.

Why?

Reason: California has tremendous influence over textbooks that are made available for sale to the rest of the nation. Also, the influence of the California NEA has great influence on the NEA throughout the nation and laws and policies made on a federal level.

Everyone across the nation, and conservatives with and without children, must take a stand in California.