California Dept. of Education slams homeschooling; 'Outside the law'

CPI News - Conservative Press International ^ | August 17, 2002 | William Holzer - CPI Investigative Reporter

[John Jorsett]

I just posted this article: California: School Choice Falling Short. Push for private vouchers may intensify

[montag813]

California is a land of pure evil. The modern incarnation of Sodom and Gomorrah. California is a disgrace to this nation. It is well past time for the productive citizens of that state to emulate "John Galt" and simply widthdraw from the system entirely. Without being able to rape its productive citizens to engorge its growing parasitic illegal population, Kalifornia would grind to a halt.

[John Jorsett]

Since children are declared on tax forms in order to get the exemption, is there any chance that California might start matching that data up with school records and begin hunting down the 'missing' children?

[montag813]

The Left clearly shows its hand when it wants pot legalized but home schooling abolished.

It's dream is to have doped-up kids absorbing Marxist-Homofascist indoctrination in the public schools.

It's nightmare is drug-free, God-fearing, independent-thinking children learning at home.

[Leisler]

"...not an authorized exemption from mandatory public school attendance..."

Unconvicted of a crime, you will, or your children will, appear at the places and times as dictated by the government. See, liberty and freedom. Just obey as you are told and nothing happens to you or the kids. What is so hard to understand about that?

[John Jorsett]

Not a slam against homeschoolers in general, but those who take such pains to "protect" their kids from the ravages of a public school education, and then eagerly enroll them in Ivy League schools--the epicenter of the most outrageous, Leftist bias in education on the face of the planet--are hypocrites, no mistake.

They like the cachet of these schools, and are suddenly willing to throw away the very principles they SAY they espouse, in giving these places money and opprobrium to continue their vile slanders against America.

I'd have to say that if the kids haven't been inoculated against looney ideas by that age, then there's something wrong. There have been plenty of conservatives that have graduated from the Ivy League, so it's clearly possible to pass through without getting your ideology warped.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Don't forget the Governor has Emergency Powers!

[kjenerette]

...for later reading!

[John Jorsett]

Don't forget the Governor has Emergency Powers!

I just wish he had Emergency Competence to go with them.

[Balding_Eagle]

Just as you are more prepared an able to resist indoctrination by the leftist/marxist profs at your age and wisdom, so are the kids who have solid grounding in common sense.

My grandchildren are homeschooled, and I'm confident of their future skills against the progessive/liberal (or whatever they'll be calling themselves in 10 years) devils.

[Illbay]

I'd have to say that if the kids haven't been inoculated against looney ideas by that age, then there's something wrong.

That's not the point. You are "aiding and abetting" these schools with your support.

That's RANK hypocrisy.

[John Jorsett]

That's not the point. You are "aiding and abetting" these schools with your support.

How about looking at it as diluting the concentration of leftists at the school?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Not a slam against homeschoolers in general, but those who take such pains to "protect" their kids from the ravages of a public school education, and then eagerly enroll them in Ivy League schools--the epicenter of the most outrageous, Leftist bias in education on the face of the planet--are hypocrites, no mistake.

Personally, I would not pay to send my children to an Ivy League communist indoctrination center; however, I do not necessarily fault parents who do. Hopefully, my children will have values instilled in them by the time they go to college and will recognize left wing bias when they see it. In elementary school, they are just too vulnerable to liberal brain washing.

[sweetliberty]

"The National Education Association (NEA) – in their 2000-2001 resolutions – states that the NEA "believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."

Translation: "We are unable to indoctrinate home-schooled children in Marxist liberalism and political correctness and neutralize religious teaching from the home."

[usadave]

It's all about money, pure and simple. Less students attending public schools = less money for public schools = less money for public school bureaucrats to spend and waste.

[archy]

Sounds like time for another of those California voters' initiatives. Oh, California FReepers... Yoo-hoo! Time to go to work....

[SpookBrat]

the NEA "believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."

No thanks. I'm not interested in the NEA's comprehensive education experience. We've got our own comprehensive education experience going on here at home and we are having a blast!

[usadave]

The California Department of Education is once again trying to stop the fastest growing educational movement in the country. According to a new letter that is circulating through California school districts, "Parents who home school their children are operating outside the law."

Talk about topsy-turvy times in California politics. They consider punishing well intentioned parents who only want to provide the best possible education for their children, but at the same time they reward illegal aliens who are causing some of the very problems in our public schools that are causing these parents to take their children out of public schools.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It makes sense to those who are running the programmes!!!