California warns home schoolers

Washington Times ^ | 8/21/02 | Ellen Sorokin

[kattracks]

School officials in California are warning parents that they cannot educate their children at home unless they obtain professional teaching credentials.

Without the proper credentials, parents no longer can file required paperwork that would authorize them to home school their children, states a memo issued by the state Department of Education. As a result, those children not attending public schools would be considered "truant" by local school districts.

[madfly]

California homeschool ping!

[Grampa Dave]

Money is getting tight.

The Left wing maggots who are the administrators of the public schools know that their upcoming budgets will stay the same or get cut. Then no more trips to Vegas to select new books. No more trips to some tropical haven to discuss enviro issues.

So the word is out that all they need is one home school student per class to get that close to $5,000/school year for that child to make up the differences in cut budgets.

The CTA/NEA are Gray Bozo's biggest supporters behind the trial lawyers financially and #1 in votes. They will have Davis backing this when the Rat legislature brings it up and rams it through both house.

Of course the predator homosexuals will donate money and their political clout to push this bill.

Any parent who believes in home schooling and intends to vote for Davis and the rats in the legislature is sacrificing their children at the Rat altar.

Why this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me. Home schooling parents are a very small % of voters in Kali. Therefore, they can be treated in any way the Rats want to treat them.

[Skooz]

The forced schooling crowd is pathetic, and they need to be treated as the whiny, snivelly, contemptible, pathetic little ass leeches they are.

Perfectly stated. Agreed.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Naturally, the California State Superintendent of Education's Website has no e-mail addresses and no electronic contact information. Just some poor slob's phone number (a long-distance call). Ironic that one of the website's featured sections is "accountability." Obviously, parents need to be accountable to the EdDiots in the public schools (heavy sarcasm).

[Jeff Head]

Like water, children are as important as life itself.

Enforcement of this issue, particularly given the attitude and reasoning of arrogance put forth in this article is sure to lead to trouble ... very bad trouble IMHO.

[ppaul]

"All parents are welcome to supplement their children's education with home instruction, but not substitute the education with uncredentialed home instruction."

Welcome to supplement?

[Phil V.]

Good morning.
RE. #18 . . . We agree 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a truely great day indeed!

Stay well.

[Grampa Dave]

We conservatives understand the value of children.

The left wing Rats see them as political power toys that can bring huge tax $'s to their voters and power groups.

Thanks to Grayout Davis and the give it all away Rat controlled legislature in Kali, they have decimated the 12 billion surplus and are on the way to totally destroying the economy for Kali.

With the rats, just follow the money trail. The teachers union is very powerful, and their administrators are addicted to bigger budgets each and every year to hire more people and gain more power.

So the legislature and the top Rat have given signals to the Education Rats to start the elimination of the home schooling. Each home school student that comes back to public schools brings in about $5,000 per year in funding. Or how the rats look at it, "Each home school students takes away $5,000 per year in funding!"

So the Rats in control of the politics have told the Rats in charge of public Kali schools to start demonizing home schooling.

This is the beginning of the Demonization Process. It may not happen this year, but like the Demonization of SUV's, eventually the Rats will prevail unless it is thrown back in their faces like a 100 mph fastball.

[Jeff Head]

If they try and enforce this fiat ... or if they get it "officialized" by the state legislature and try to enforce it ... then like Klamath, they will push too far.

These fools don't even realize what type of fire they are playing with when they take it upon themselves to generally go after all homeschooled kids in this manner for the sake of their power, their depravity and their socialist/marxist agendas.

Of course, they hope to use Kaligaria as the precedent and example to push the agenda elsewhere.

[EdReform]

Please consider the information posted in the thread below and pass it on to others:

Help Defund the National Education Association

[Myrddin]

The CA public schools are a real POS. I did the "home schooling" after putting in a 10 hour day at work. My #2 son learned proper study skills through that process. In high school, he often taught the AP lessons in class that the assigned "teacher" could not comprehend. He would tutor his circle of 10 friends that were attending the AP classes. A string of AP test scores with a "5" (best possible) attests to the value of the effort spent outside the public school classroom. He had enough AP credits to qualify as a college sophomore the day he graduated from high school.

Even if you can't get past the jack booted education establishment in CA, there is still a way to keep your kids from sinking into the abyss. For what it's worth, I do have a CA teaching credential. It's limited to teaching computer science classes at the community colleges.

[em2vn]

And this is why parents, with "marriage licenses", suffer under "mandatory public school attendance

What absolute bunk you post. The option of private school isn't effected by this lawless declaration of a bureaucrat with a self serving agenda.
I don't see where the CA. attorney general has ruled upon this opinion ,nor, most certainly, has it been exposed to juducial review.

[MrB]

A marriage license is just the state's "me too" on a union blessed by God.

[lavaroise]

Warn homeschoolers? Back then when one wanted something, they appologized, confessed their sins and asked what they wanted. Nowadays you are given warnings. This is California Jihad asking to eat some lead.

[foghornleghorn]

The insufferable arrogance of these educrats is stunning! Their own system of schooling is absolutely bankrupt, an enterprise that in the private sector would long ago have been consigned to the scrap-heap of failure. Yet they dare to threaten the only alternative that actually has shown good results over the last several years. Kids actually LEARN something in home-schooled families.

Kalifornia must get rid of Davis and the demonrats if we ever expect to escape the cesspool of socialism and its culture of failure and coercion.

[A2J]

Anybody willing to start a pool betting on the date the first perp is arrested?

I assume that your use of the word "perp," was done with tongue-in-cheek?

[skeeter]

Why this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me. Home schooling parents are a very small % of voters in Kali. Therefore, they can be treated in any way the Rats want to treat them.

True, home schools are easy pickins. Private schools will be a tougher nut to crack, but thats where the real payoff for the state is.

[taxcontrol]

Left California for Colorado in '96. Glad I did and will never go back.

[Fearless Flyers]

If this guy is an example of advocacy for Home Schooling in California, Home Schoolers are in for a tough battle.

Roy Hanson, director of the California-based Private and Home Educators of California, said he is telling home-school parents to monitor the situation without waging any kind of campaign. "We're telling parents to be alert," Mr. Hanson said. "We're telling them not to panic, not to be complacent and know what the facts are."

[agrace]

"...All parents are welcome to supplement their children's education with home instruction, but not substitute the education with uncredentialed home instruction."

So in other words, despite the doublespeak, Ms Winger, you DO support the memo's statements requiring home school parents to hold teaching credentials.

Praying for you CA homeschoolers.