Judge Attacks Homeschooling

In 1919 Soviet State education was made compulsory - homeschooling was abolished.

In 1938 Hitler abolished homeschooling in Nazi Germany.

In 1959 Communist China abolished homeschooling: "All children who have reached the age of six shall enroll in school and receive compulsory education for the prescribed number of years, regardless of sex, nationality or race." Mao Tse-tung

Where are we headed??

Get informed, get motivated, and get involved!

"...parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children..."

The choice of words there is horrifying, coming from a judge. He implies that rights are granted by the constitution (i.e., government). Sounds like the kind of guy Romney would have nominated.

Putting that aside, he is ultimately correct. Your children are not yours to raise as you think best; they belong to the state, who determines how they are to be raised and issues edicts to that effect. You as a parent are little more than an unpaid surrogate caregiver. If you doubt this, call up child protective services and tell them that you have decided to raise "your" children to be terrorists, then see how long it takes before the state comes to repossess its property.

"Terrorist" can be replaced at any point in time, past, present or future, with the bogeyman of the day (e.g., "communist" in the '50s, "terrorist" today, "constitutionalist" in the not-too-distant future).

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Liberty for Dummies

Moving ahead to more recent news regarding the subject...

Schwarzenegger: Home School Ruling 'Outrageous'
Governor Says Ruling Must Be Overturned

SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) ― Governor Schwarzenegger says the court ruling that says parents must have a teaching credential to home school their kids is 'outrageous'.

The governor issued the following stern statement today regarding the recent ruling by the state's Second District Court of Appeals.

"Every California child deserves a quality education and parents should have the right to decide what's best for their children. Parents should not be penalized for acting in the best interests of their children's education. This outrageous ruling must be overturned by the courts and if the courts don't protect parents' rights then, as elected officials, we will."

The governor adds support to opponents of the ruling who have already said they appeal.

The court's opinion came down in February 28. In it, Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote, "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children."

An estimated 166,000 students in California are home schooled, but it was unclear how many of them are taught solely by an uncredentialed parent.

To earn a five-year preliminary teaching credential in California, a person must obtain a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and complete multiple examinations.

Until now, California allowed home schooling if parents filed paperwork to establish themselves as small, private schools; hired a credentialed tutor; or enrolled their child in an independent study program run by an established school while teaching the child at home.

The state left enforcement up to local school districts, but there has been little oversight.

The ruling stems from a case involving Phillip and Mary Long, a Los Angeles-area couple whose eight children are enrolled or have been enrolled in Sunland Christian School in suburban Sylmar and occasionally have taken tests there.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services intervened after the couple's eldest child "reported physical and emotional mistreatment" by the father, court papers said. The department conducted an investigation and found that despite the couple's assertion that their children were enrolled at Sunland, they were educated at home by their mother, who does not have a teaching credential.

An attorney appointed to represent two of the Longs' young children asked the court to order that the children physically attend a public or private school. A trial court disagreed, and the lawyer appealed.

Under California law, children are required to enroll in and attend public schools unless they attend a private school, or are tutored by a credentialed teacher. The appeals panel found that the Longs did not adequately demonstrate that the exemptions apply to their children.

Attorneys for the state Department of Education were reviewing the ruling, and home schooling organizations were lining up against it.

Phillip Long vowed to take the case to the state Supreme Court.

"I have sincerely held religious beliefs," he told the Los Angeles Times. "Public schools conflict with that. I have to go with what my conscience requires me."

http://cbs13.com/local/schwarzenegger.home.schooling.2.67216...

Its not even about whats better. Its the choice . the freedom to choose.

They don't have the distractions you find in public school. Watch Out Private schools are next.......

we all know that credentialed teachers are so much better for our children.

see an example of a credentialed teacher

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1102051teach1.html

for Why credentials are so important

that home schooling can be a good thing? Just because most Spelling, Geography, Math, and other schoolastic events are consistantly won by home shooled children? It may result in free thinking, and we cant have that! We cant have citizens walking around that are more intellegent than those that run the country, when Bush still is in denial that we are in financial trouble (and only 4 months late).

by 2009 I'll be gone,
Indicted on war crimes all alone,
The green, green grass of home!

BT

Dam politicians, not rivers!

Then pluck him from the bench and sit him with the other murderers who are poison us daily (knowingly).

"Walls are stronger than the men that defend them."

Ghegis Khan

anyways. Easier said than done but my question is: Is it feasible to move elsewhere where parental decision on their children's education will be respected? Perhaps, there are better jobs and opportunitites somewhere else. Interstate exodus is taking place as we speak. A lot of people leave NY everyday. Why not KA, too?

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." Confucius

The goal of the Federal World Government is to control you. This is how satan and his supporters work. Of course they want to overthrow the Constitution.

Close down the internet; close down Home Schooling; close our churches, and take away our Bibles.

Nice law in UN to get rid of Christian Missionaires -- then Bibles.

Same with handguns -- now they want people to turn in ammo and use only barcoded type. Get the list ready for Martial Law.

Google Dan Hamburg article on US detention centers.