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Schwarzenegger denounces 'outrageous' homeschooling ruling
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/7/2008 | Jill Tucker and Bob Egelko

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; buyammo; california; communism; denounces; homeschooling; rinosonparade; ruling; schwarzenegger
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To: GVnana

He actually does something right after supporting that other homosexual thing not long ago.


21 posted on 03/07/2008 6:50:31 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: GVnana
"Every California child deserves a quality education and parents should have the right to decide what's best for their children,"

This from Arnold? Liberal moonbat on steroids Arnold?

That does it, Hell HAS frozen over.

Looks like I'm going to be busy for the next few years.
22 posted on 03/07/2008 6:51:05 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: easternsky

“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


23 posted on 03/07/2008 6:51:42 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: GVnana

It was on Freepers last Friday or Saturday. Do you suppose he does not read here.


24 posted on 03/07/2008 6:51:46 PM PST by easternsky
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To: GVnana

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.


25 posted on 03/07/2008 6:53:38 PM PST by GregH (Those conservatives who wish for a US defeat in Iraq are traitors.)
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To: easternsky

I don’t pretend to know what he reads.


26 posted on 03/07/2008 6:53:52 PM PST by GVnana ("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
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To: poindexters brother
My wife, a credentialed teacher, wholeheartedly concurs. The one of ten classes being worthwhile....maybe one in ten.
27 posted on 03/07/2008 6:54:51 PM PST by bubbacluck
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To: Cicero; humblegunner
Humblegunner: I hope it encourages them to get some credentials.

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.

28 posted on 03/07/2008 6:55:53 PM PST by GVnana ("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
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To: tflabo

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.


29 posted on 03/07/2008 6:57:00 PM PST by Kieri (Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)
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To: humblegunner

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.


30 posted on 03/07/2008 6:57:35 PM PST by panthermom (Obama!!! The American Idol Candidate)
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To: liege

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 . . .


31 posted on 03/07/2008 6:59:25 PM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: GVnana
I wasn't being smart, I appreciate any help we can get. Its just irritates me they are not on the cutting edge.
32 posted on 03/07/2008 6:59:55 PM PST by easternsky
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To: GVnana
"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.

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.

33 posted on 03/07/2008 7:00:23 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: GVnana

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?


34 posted on 03/07/2008 7:00:39 PM PST by sagar
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To: krb; SierraWasp; calcowgirl
He’s not as “liberal” as people think.

Actually he's MORE liberal than people think. Believe me, I know.

35 posted on 03/07/2008 7:01:32 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (When you choose the lesser of two evils, you still have evil.)
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To: humblegunner
The enemy, and their socialist agenda:

"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

36 posted on 03/07/2008 7:04:34 PM PST by GVnana ("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
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To: NormsRevenge

“This is a common sense cause, and he is correct.”

If it is common sense, why did the judge rule they way he did?


37 posted on 03/07/2008 7:04:38 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: GVnana

Do I smell the Teachers’ Union behind this?


38 posted on 03/07/2008 7:05:33 PM PST by sarasota
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To: easternsky

This is the first I’ve heard of it as well, so maybe it’s finally hitting the media “headlines”.


39 posted on 03/07/2008 7:06:25 PM PST by sarasota
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To: GVnana

He has the power to pardon in CA.

So he should just do it and nullify the ruling.


40 posted on 03/07/2008 7:06:56 PM PST by Bobalu (I guess I see'd that varmint for the last time....)
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