Posted on 09/01/2002 11:56:14 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In recent days, the Department of Education has been portrayed in some circles as the enemy of California home-schoolers. Be assured that the department has not changed its position or embarked on a "campaign" to root out home-schoolers. Instead, the department has merely provided material, including its long-standing interpretation of applicable California law, to all persons who have requested information about home-schooling.
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Prominent homeschooling legal authorities such as Will Rogers have noted that the law has not changed. But, perhaps the interpretation and consequent enforcement might. Certainly the invective has.
This bears watching.
Homeschoolers represent a lot of votes! wonder how davis is going to handle this?
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Why should parents be, as implied by this letter, forced to take courses in "edukashun" institutions so they can teach their own children? Why not just require them to get frontal lobotomies, which would produce the state-mandated level of stupidity both quicker and cheaper?
And this moron of a public official should be slapped upside the head with the reports and results of national tests that show that home schooled students do BETTER, pound for pound, than the "publik skool" students who are chained to their desks in the plantations run by educrats.
Or, better still, how about a world-class FReep of this woman's home?
Congressman Billybob
The California legislature is beholden to school authorities, so the only way this totalitarian law can be changed is in the Initiative process.
Get on with the initiative, California.
Translation:
Ms. Eastin is California superintendent of public indocrination.
Translation:
Ms. Eastin is California superintendent of public indoctrination.
Home Schooling IS Legal in California
On August 27, 2002, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin, sent a letter about private home education to state legislators. In her letter, Eastin begins by stating,
"Over the last few weeks, the Department of Education has been characterized in some circles as being engaged in a campaign to harass home schoolers and to root out home schooling in California. My staff and I have received dozens of angry telephone calls and written communications that unfairly assume that the Department is misapplying the state's compulsory education law in derogation of the rights of parents, and a handful of conservative publications have attacked our application of the law. None of these charges is true, of course, but the amount of misinformation, and passion, in these communications does make me believe that the situation cries out for a legislative solution." (emphasis added) Eastin presents a distorted view of home schoolers' establishing of private schools by stating,
"In the more recent past, we believe that aggressive home school advocates have counseled home schoolers to attempt to bring their practice within the private school exemption by filing a Private School Affidavit. Home school advocates apparently assume that, once such a Private School Affidavit is filed, the home schooled children are no longer truant under the compulsory education law." During the 1980's, the CDE openly supported private "home schooling." It was not until the 90's that the CDE changed their position, in spite of the fact that no law in California had changed.
Private home educators in California have successfully and legally complied with the private school laws for more than two decades. No law in California has changed. The laws relating to private schools do not limit schools by size, location, relation of pupils to teachers and administrators, teaching materials, nor state approval of teachers via credential or license. The CDE has erroneously claimed during the past ten years that private schools must be "businesses, soliciting enrollment from the public at large;" that they must offer "services for compensation;" and more. Local public school authorities have generally ignored such statements, and home education has continued to grow and prosper. For at least the past 20 years, the State Legislature has not only understood, but also supported the right of parents to establish and operate private schools in their homes.
For more information on the legal status of home education in California, read HSLDA President Michael Smith's letter to the California Legislature.
We need YOUR help fight Superintendent Eastin's incorrect view of home education. Read our Call to Action.
A good start.
Now this makes great sense.
Let's dumb down the parents just like weve taken otherwise reasonably intelligent individuals and mind numbed them throught the credentialing process.
Be happy. This is good news!!!
You bet it does, but probably not in the way she is thinking. Letting the legislature get its filthy mitts on this issue is begging for trouble. If I were someone deeply concerned about the right to home school, I'd be ramping up my forces for an initiative. Hoping for help from either the California legislature or courts is high risk to say the least.
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