Actually, it's this family and the HSLDA that are damaging homeschooling.
Please, let me know what your understanding is...
On what grounds do you think the decision was wrong--please cite specifically the part where the judge ruled contrary to law.
Did the family follow the law? Did they register as a private school?
What exemption should they have fallen under--and if it's the private school one, then where's their registration?
Read the top of page 9 where the judge discusses the Turner case. He quotes favorably where it says that homeschoolers do not qualify under the private school exception. This is why HSLDA is worried and it is very serious concern. Please go back and read this part of the case again. Here is the most dangerous part of the case since the judge ends his decision by stongly implying that is still good law. Please read this quote carefully because it indicates that homeschools may not register as private schools under any circumstance.
“Additionally, the Turner court rejected, and noted that courts in other states had also rejected, the notion that parents instructing their children at home come within the private full-time day school exemption in then-section 16624 (now section 48222). The court stated that a simple reading of the statutes governing private schools and home instruction by private tutors shows the Legislature intended to distinguish the two, for if a private school includes a parent or private tutor instructing a child at home, there would be no purpose in writing separate legislation for private instruction at home.”
So—therefore the answer is NOT (apparently) to hold the family individually accountable per the current law as written and as you claimed the HSLDA mucked up the interpretation—BUT RATHER NOW we have a situation of Law Created by Legislative Fiat—which means that everyone else in the state is affected.
Credential, eh? No agenda there?
Nice try. Laws should ordinarily be made by the legislative bodies—not the courts. The courts are to interpret the current laws, not find “penumbras” of some semi-spriritual meaning hiding in the shadows of assumption.
Even in the public schools I went to, they taught THAT much.
it’s this family and the HSLDA that are damaging homeschooling.
The HSLDA was not involved in this issue and the family are not members, just for clarity, but since they WERE taken rather off guard by this ruling, they have issued statements. Are these statements then the “damage” that was done?
The interpretation as I saw it by this court leaves the door swinging wide open in the wind to fairly much interpret things however the need for “credentialing” is felt it should go by certain groups.