CA Court of Appeals: There’s No Right to Homeschool
- on 03.06.08
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Today the CA Court of Appeals said (Hat tip: Liberty Is For Me)
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“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.†|
The Courts are once again ruling against the rights of the individual and forcing the will of the State onto its residents. This is Judicial tyranny and it has to be stopped. Each day, we as citizens are losing our rights to an out of control judiciary. The courts have eroded our personal property rights with the Kelo decision. They have been gradually eroding our rights as parents to raise our children in the manner that we think is best. Now they take that one step further and say the State has the final say in how we educate our children.
More information can be found at the following:
- PDF of Ruling
- LA Times Coverage
- Citizen Link
- LA court says: Homeschoolers need to attend government schools
[...] In a quick update to my post about California Courts ruling that parents don’t have a right to homeschool, there is now a petition to sign if you support homeschooling and want to see this ruling overturned at the HSLDA website. The HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) has a resource page here. [...]
[...] In a quick update to my post about California Courts ruling that parents don’t have a right to homeschool, there is now a petition to sign if you support homeschooling and want to see this ruling overturned at the HSLDA website. The HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) has a resource page here. [...]
[...] The Wall Street Journal had an Editorial about the homeschool ruling in California. I had previously written about this here and here. Below are a couple of excerpts [ Emphasis mine]: [...]
[...] http://educationmatters.us/?p=844 [...]
Like you, I disagree with the idea that only a certified teacher is qualified to provide a complete education, but I do think that there must be some way to make the instructor (parent or school teacher) accountable.
Our family briefly considered homeschooling when a discipline problem at our son’s private school became a chronic disruption. Fortunately the school resolved the issue (one of the benefits of private school), but while we were working with them on our son’s behalf we were also talking with every homeschooling family we met. The motivations for homeschooling were as diverse as the approaches to it. Unfortunately the results were equally diverse.
We met quite a few families that were very successfully preparing their children for college and/or employment. However, we also met more than a few families who were quite candid that their own math and science skills were not adequate and did not allow them to teach their own children. Unfortunately, it is their children who will pay for that inadequacy, and we had to seriously consider our own abilities as we considered the homeschooling option.
The question was – and is – how and if we should hold homeschool teachers accountable (as we should public and private school teachers)? We certainly have the right to raise our children as we see fit, but we do not have the right to cause them injury or to deny them basic need such as adequate food, shelter or education.
I think there has to be a middle ground between certification of all teachers – which does not always guarantee good teaching – and no oversight.
[...] a shame that rulings like the one in California and the article recently in Parade disparage homeschoolers. They are a varied and responsible group [...]