[GVnana]

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

There are a lot of liberals who don't comprehend homeschooling. They think homeschooling parents are backward and potentially harming their children by not properly "socializing" them. In other words, homeschoolers are right-wing nuts subjecting their children to subversive indoctrination.

Judge Crosky's comments:

"California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. "Parents have a legal duty to see to their children's schooling under the provisions of these laws."

Parents can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply, Croskey said.

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.

Home-schooled children do not make good mind-numbed robots, and Croskey is a dupe.

[farmer18th]

Home-schooled children do not make good mind-numbed robots, and Croskey is a dupe.

He's a tad old. (72, 73?) I bet he was having a bad Depends day. He went to U.S.C. and of all the topics he could have chosen to study, he took public policy. That's the sign of a small mind.

[dangus]

>> “A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare,” the judge wrote ...<<

So, natch the judge has prosecuted all those America-hating school teachers who have subverted this purpose, turning the school system into Marxist indoctrination camps, right?

[SierraWasp]

Like that insipid ad the teacher’s union keeps running on conservative talk radio for the past umpteen years... “and no child succeeds alone!”

[giobruno]

The judge refers to a 1961 statute (and I knew right away that it was a old statute from archaic language, using words like “patriotism”), but not a public school in California that I know of, from the administrators on down, would refer to their mission in that language, no one. He claims that is the mission of publics schools, but if you carved it over the mantle on every public school in CA, 400 groups would sue to have it removed at warmongering, racist, eurocentric, and culturally insensitive. Sorry, the state schools may create robots, but not those kind of robots who are good citizens who openly express love of country.