[secretagent]

I get so angry at the smug assumption of power in these twits!

[goody2shooz]

This article really doesn't tell anything!

Will the State of California lower the boom on parents who home teach? Will they be arrested and charged, maybe even go to jail if found guilty, or will the authorities turn a blind eye to home teaching?

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

[Crazymonarch]

Forwards Forwards the bright trumpets flare

Forwards Forwards youth knows no dangers

Amerika will shine brightly etc....kALIFORNIA uBER aLLES.

[amstaff1]

I believe I was reading just last week that a great many of Kalifornia's public school teachers are not properly credentialed themselves. Sorry, Kalifornia sucks in to many ways to mention, this being just one of them.

[Cindy]

This is a great site: HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION (click here)

[brat]

Please join the Parent's protest of the NEA...keep your kids home from school on 911! Spread the word!~

[spetznaz]

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

PING-A-LING-A-LING!. This is totally annoying. Not only does the Cali school system advocate teaching practices that are simply detrimental to young'uns but at the same time they lash out at those who decide to teach their kids at home (when stats show that homeschooled kids perform better than those in public school)?

This is completely wrong and i wish pressure could be applied to negate this socially attritive legislation!

There must be a way to stop this (after all this is America .....people have the power to stop such BS legislation). Someone please restore my faith in the power of concerted group effort against oppresive/suppresive/repressive forces!

With all seriousness tell me they cannot do what it seems they are trying to do.

(Jaded alert)

[Bullish]

Gird your loins for a hell of a fight, people. The lines are now drawn. Your kids attending their schools means more money to them. That's what this is all about. They couldn't care less about your children, or their education. They want to indoctrinate your kids and turn them against you. They must be defeated, everything depends on it.

[Conservative4Ever]

Ha yes..the thumb screws are now being applied. Those Freepers who reside in CA...who have children who are home schooled...now is the time to take a stand. CA is becoming a real sucky place to live.

Red

[handk]

It's the marriage license stupid!

License. The permission by competent authority ("by the authority vested in me by the State of California, I hereby pronounce you man and wife") to do an act, which without such permission, would be illegal, a trespass, or a tort. [Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, at p. 829].

When the "State" (as in "California") creates a legal partnership (a/k/a "marriage", via a "marriage license granted by the State) it becomes, in effect, an "equitable interest"; an equitable interest entitled to control of the "profits" of such a partnership. And what are the "profits" of such a partnership?

Children.

The marriage license is the nexus, the "connection"; it is the legal document that grants the power to the State to dictate and control all children under it's jurisdiction.

Remember, the "creator" is always senior to its "creations".

If you are married, with a "marriage license", you are a "creature", a "creation", and your "union" (partnership) is "subject to" to the whims of the creator (the "State").

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

The "creator" is simply asserting control over it's property, it's "profits" (children), from it's statutory "creations" (partnerships/marriages).

[Lion Den Dan]

Bump

[American in Israel]

With the total incompetence of the public school system, just where are these bean counters going to find someone smart enough to enforce this LAW created by fiat, without representation? This BOZO has no more right to create laws than the village idiot sweeping streets.

Suddenly he announces a major change in what HE will accept as legal. Show me the legislature, the vote, the paper trail that makes this a real law an not just some dictation of a counter clerk at the dmv.

The crime here is that the California legislature is pretending that this law any credence at all.

[madfly]

California homeschool ping!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[glory]

You know, I have a feeling this is in reaction to the backlash at the Islam studies in public school as well as Dobson's pleas for parents to take thier children out. Since we know this has a lot to do with money and control, my feeling is that there is word that perhaps they are expecting a LOT more affidavits this year in response to Dobson's comments. This is the only effective way they could keep from loosing a hell of a lot more money this year. Mark my words, this is not meant to scare current homeschoolers, but those considering homeschooling since Dobson's recommendations.

[headsonpikes]

I look forward to the day that this b*tch Mendoza and her co-conspirators are dragged through the streets on the way to their executions. ;^)

I realize this will never happen; instead, she will prosper and be rewarded with all kinds of taxpayer money. California children will continue to be re-educated by the marxist swine of the NEA. No one who counts will make any noise; it's all just business as usual in the campaign to make America Socialist.

The Socialists are still winning, you'll notice.