Posted on 03/07/2008 6:36:30 PM PST by GVnana
(03-07) 13:37 PST SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised today to ensure that parents have the right to homeschool their children, after a state appeals court ruling severely restricted the practice in California.
"Every California child deserves a quality education and parents should have the right to decide what's best for their children," the governor said in a statement. "Parents should not be penalized for acting in the best interests of their children's education. This outrageous ruling must be overturned by the courts and if the courts don't protect parents' rights then, as elected officials, we will."
An estimated 166,000 children are homeschooled across the state.
The ruling by the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said all children ages 6 to 18 must attend public or private school full-time until graduation from high school or be tutored at home by a credentialed teacher.
The Southern California case stemmed from a child welfare dispute involving the children of Phillip and Mary Long of Lynwood (Los Angeles County). The couple's eight children have been home-schooled by Mary Long, who holds no teaching credential. The children were also enrolled in a private school through an independent study program, which included quarterly home visits. Although the case did not involve the question of the children's truancy, the court decision broadly addressed the legality of homeschooling in California while specifically ruling that the Long family's situation violated state law.
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He actually does something right after supporting that other homosexual thing not long ago.
“I doubt this should be in Breaking news. The ruling came out on the 28th of February. Where has Arnold been?”
Why testing the Political Breeze of course, it takes time for the wind speed to build up.
That said, his “help” would be better then having someone openly hostile in Sacramento...Kaliforniaaaa
It was on Freepers last Friday or Saturday. Do you suppose he does not read here.
I think that this home school ruling should be enough reminder for those idiots voting for third parties or staying at home that their actions does have consequences.
I don’t pretend to know what he reads.
Cicero: Have you ever looked at the kind of ridiculous junk you have to go through to be certified as a teacher?
Humblegunner, a California teaching credential is not about teaching. It's psychobabble.
I’m confused as to your reference to Michigan.
We have no jobs and people are fleeing the high taxes, but homeschooling is an accepted practice here. You simply file a few papers and they leave you alone — no social workers, tutors, “certified teachers,” etc.
Homeschooling parents probably won’t come here. There’s not much for a breadwinner to do.
Just got off the phone with a friend who is a teacher. She’s burnt out, not because of the kids but all of the paperwork she has to hand into the state, leaving less time for her to teach.
My wife’s degree was to be a teacher. She jokes about it because she was learning crafts in college . . . projects with macaroni and cut-out heavy brown paper turkeys and the like. I have to admit though . . . the kids love it and I wouldn’t know how to make a turkey that gobbles with just some string, glue, scissors and different colors of paper!
Not worth 4 years of classes though . . .
Hey, Arnie! That's not what you said when you signed all those bills mandating teaching homosexualism to grade-schoolers and revising all the textbooks!
Why doncha fix that one, while you're at it.
Didn’t racists back in the old days take native kids away from their families for “education” in boarding schools? How is this ruling different than what they did back a hundred years?
Actually he's MORE liberal than people think. Believe me, I know.
"Union pleased with ruling
The ruling was applauded by a director for the state's largest teachers union.
"We're happy," said Lloyd Porter, who is on the California Teachers Association board of directors. "We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/07/MNJDVF0F1.DTL
“This is a common sense cause, and he is correct.”
If it is common sense, why did the judge rule they way he did?
Do I smell the Teachers’ Union behind this?
This is the first I’ve heard of it as well, so maybe it’s finally hitting the media “headlines”.
He has the power to pardon in CA.
So he should just do it and nullify the ruling.
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