Posted on 03/07/2008 6:36:30 PM PST by GVnana
Finally, a reason to go back to school to get an Ed degree. A friend's been working on me for a few years to become a teacher. I didn't think I could afford the pay cut, but with an extra benefit like that, I might recalculate the budget.
Nobody was calling public school parents names or using epithets. Parents of homeschool children are anxious tight now to protect their liberty to continue. Many of us around the country believe that this is exactly what God wants us to do. Like the family in the California case, we've already been doing it for many years (26 years in our case). We have three children left at home and are homeschooling them.
We would think that even public school parents would applaud our efforts. And those of us who are property owners are forced to help finance the public schools we don't use.
We are not trying to call public school users ugly names, believe me. We are having to defend ourselves and our “kind” at this point. We are waiting to see how this California court's idiocy might spring up in other states where more of us live.
Regardless, we would be one family who could never submit to such a ruling in our state. We would have to fight or flee. I would certainly send my children out of state for a while. Families like us are working overtime to put together our answers for why we homeschool should be ever be taken in. Stating facts like “Homeschooled children score much higher on average than public school children” are very important to us. They are not meant to denigrate you.
I believe it’s political insurance. Should the Cal supremes find in favor of gay marriage, he is gonna get blowback from that, and this would provide him some buffer.
Right now his stance in favor of this could well be nothing but lip service, as anything he might do to help home-schoolers (I gotta see this :rolls-eyes:) is down the road a bit, while the court decision is imminent.
“but with an extra benefit like that, I might recalculate the budget.”
And what is a firm fanny worth to you?
Can a woman really put a price tag on such a valuable commodity?
Get those credentials ladies!
Then we won’t be called lardass housewives anymore!
Just another case of the men in black running the country.
The cost to the State of 166,000 additional students might be a factor in the Governator’s statement.
Yep.
Even though Schwarzenegger is super wealthy now, he's self-made literally picking himself up from his own bootstraps. He'd identify with with the mother you've described. I stick with my former comment that he's protecting his own. American public schools didn't make Arnold successful.
"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."
I recall a story that Will Smith told about his own mom. When he was still a snot nosed teenager, he’d won a big MTV award and was pretty much internationally recognized. He went home (still living with his parents) that night and his mom told him to buy some groceries for dinner. “But mom, I just won the...” was about all he could say before she responded with the hammer, “But but nothing, go get some more groceries if you want to eat this this house.” was her general response.
The state has no authority like a mom does.
Ah, now I see what this is all about: protecting the teachers' union.
Take it to the Supreme Court.
Good. But the fight is going to be long and hard.
I'm afraid you're right. It's appalling what we have allowed bureaucrats and liberals to do to our freedoms.
HSLDA will be formally petitioning the California Supreme Court to depublish the opinion and "would like to show that many other people, both in California and across the country, care deeply about homeschool freedom in California."
Link: https://www2.hslda.org/Registrations/DepublishingCaliforniaCourtDecision/
Thanks. I think the link has already been posted to this thread, but it can’t hurt to do it again!
If you have that data on hand please ping me? I know its fact but I'd love to pour over the data. Good ammo to have on hand. I've a lot of faith in our young home schooled Americans.
The high schools in Boston are a horrible mess. Just depresses me to no end.
BTW this thread now has over 7,250 views.
No, a pardon would tend to give stature to the ruling, and require the parents to clasp the knees of the State of California in a situation in which it is the State, not they, that is manifestly in the wrong. It's time, instead, to go to war on the Democrat Plantation.
It's time for Der Governator to slam his fist down on the table, hard.......
"Whoaaaa, duuude! Check the knuckle grooves in the tabletop!"
It's an election year, too -- great time to engage conservatives again for a change. "Raw liberals! Come and get 'em!!" --lol.
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