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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.

You cannot count on Schwarzenegger being Governor indefinitely. While no conservative, he is unlikely to vigorously enforce the court's ruling. Homeschooling families may be picked on at the individual level at present. However, the political situation in California is deteriorating due to middle class flight and the increasing numbers of immigrants, legal or not. The next governor is likely to be a leftist Democrat, who will receive the full support of the leftist legislature. Then there will be a crackdown on homeschooling, and those who don't get their affairs in order to leave California without losing money will be forced to flee, perhaps even at a day's notice.

Yes, I know most counties in California are still moderate to conservative, but Los Angeles and the Bay Area are left wing strongholds whose grip on the rest of the state will not be broken barring a catastrophe. The same can be said for many Northeastern states, and maybe Illinois as well. Conservatives are losing this country demographically as well as socially on both the political and cultural fronts. The best that can be hoped for is a fall back to the "red" states, although deterioration is evident even there.

The fight for CA was over 10, if not 20 years ago. The decent, productive, clear minded people in that socialist nanny state lost.

And AFAIK, CA has no influence at all on the Bob Jones, Abeka, and other homeschool textbooks our family uses.

I and my family left CA in 2005 for Texas, and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made.