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
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.
Congressman BB -- Do you have a link to these decisions?
You know that the other side is LOSING BIG TIME, when they attempt to resort to legalisms to suppress competition.
Their illusions are wearing ever thinner. How long before they all collapse and the realities they've been trying to hide come screaming to the fore front? ...Further accelerating the collapse.
The classic "home school" - where children are taught by their parent who does not have a teaching credential
Let's dumb down the parents just like weve taken otherwise reasonably intelligent individuals and mind numbed them throught the credentialing process.
They want to ensure a hidden-agenda. Probably require accredited parents teach a government approved curriculum. You know, maintain the status quo. ...Maintain the boogie men like global warming will kill us all and guns cause crime. Have to keep justifying all those government jobs.
Fortunately, there's a definite up-swing in increasing numbers of people identifying government officials for what they are--parasites. What little cream-of-the-crop government officials there is, as the collapse becomes more acute the cream will rise to the top. You won't need a magnifying glass to spot the few good ones -- spot the cream of the crop. For rising to the top will illuminate the shinning stars rising above the collapse.
Be assured that the department has not changed its position or embarked on a "campaign" to root out home-schoolers.
The classic "home school" - where children are taught by their parent who does not have a teaching credential - is not a legal means of complying with the compulsory education law, which means that home-schooled children are truant.
In the meantime, the department and I must adhere to and enforce the compulsory education laws currently on the books.
Just doing their job -- enforcing bad law. ...Enforcing unconstitutional law. That was how the majority of low level nazi minions went about doing their jobs -- enforcing bad law.