Posted on 03/06/2008 7:32:18 AM PST by edcoil
LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
Thousands of homeschoolers in California are left in legal limbo by an appeals court ruling that homeschooling is not a legal option in the state and that a family who has homeschooled all their children for years must enrol their two youngest in state or private schools. Justice H. Walter Croskey in a written opinion said, "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children."
The sweeping February 29th ruling says that California law requires "persons between the ages of six and eighteen" to be in "public full-time day school," or a "private full-time day school" or "instructed by a tutor who holds a valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught".
Constitutional right? Where in ANY state or the Federal Constitution is this right specifically DENIED? The mandate is for children to be sufficiently instructed in the basic arts of communication and reasoning to be functioning adults in today’s world, and the PUBLIC schools have failed in fulfilling that ideal, sometimes miserably and with catastrophic results.
Common sense, by its very lack, is truly an uncommon asset.
Tyrant.
Requiring that would be racist.
And where in the Constitution does it say you MUST put your kids in a public or private school?
USSC here we come.
Freeper researchers, is this weasel a Democrat??
Are they concerned that homeschooled children may have an unfair advantage over those in the public indoctrination centers
Until Roe v. Wade is overturned, children are NOT real citizens of this country, are they? :*( Just something to be controlled and indoctrinated by the liberals who hate America’s Judeo-Christian values. *sigh*
I’m assuming this is a state court ruling. It sounds like Justice H. Walter Croskey needs the Rose Bird treatment. Further, the legislature needs to modify the statutes so that future nut-case judges can’t easily write decisions like this.
Choice is soley for the purpose of killing them, not educating them once born.
Hallmark of a leftist judge - to simply rule in the way he wants things to be.
Why waste the "research" - he's obviously a democrat appointee.
The SCOTUS should have no trouble overturning this. If it doesn’t, the term “public school” should be officially deleted and replaced by “public reeducation camp”. Even the weasley language about private schools is BS, since the left has strangled vouchers.
The HSLDA has advised previously that homeschoolers can generally homeschool by qualifying as a “private full-time day school.” If one looks at the section of California law that govern, it's not tough to qualify.
I imagine that most homeschoolers in California probably qualify through this part of the law, or through association with a qualified private school. One wonders whether the appeals court meant to radically change the interpretation of the law to disqualify homeschoolers who use these legal avenues to homeschool (in which case they appear to have ignored the plain reading of the law), or whether the appeals court was merely stating that in THIS CASE, the legal requirements had not been met.
I read the opinion quickly the other day, and it appeared that the family was claiming some sort of umbrella-like association, and the appeals court specifically rejected their particular claim. I'm unsure that the court actually meant to negate the legality of everyone who is homeschooling through these legal methods.
“I weep for my country. Perhaps we have gone too long without a revolution or a civil war. Lord knows our nation has drifted far from what it was meant to be.”
I am with you.
Furthermore, I think that those of us who realize what is happening, are rapidly being outnumbered by the unaware, and those with evil intent.
Everyone remember how important it is to keep decadent, Leftist judges off the courts—especially the Supreme Court—and therefore to defeat the Democrats in the Presidential election.
Late June.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "The NY Times' Latest Hatchet Job on McCain"
One more reason to leave Kali.
I have spoken with many people who have left Kali. Only a very, very small percentage regret the move.
BTTT.
Another reason to like Texas.
You some lawyer or somethin’?
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