California Court Strikes Against Home Schooling

J.J. Jackson* | March 10, 2008

Filed Under Liberals, Schools and Education

Don’t want to send your child to the state sponsored school because that school is failing to educate properly? Well, now you may be in trouble in California if you do not have “credentials”.

A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.The homeschooling movement never saw the case coming.

“At first, there was a sense of, ‘No way,’ ” said homeschool parent Loren Mavromati, a resident of Redondo Beach (Los Angeles County) who is active with a homeschool association. “Then there was a little bit of fear. I think it has moved now into indignation.”

The ruling arose from a child welfare dispute between the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and Philip and Mary Long of Lynwood, who have been homeschooling their eight children. Mary Long is their teacher, but holds no teaching credential.

The parents said they also enrolled their children in Sunland Christian School, a private religious academy in Sylmar (Los Angeles County), which considers the Long children part of its independent study program and visits the home about four times a year.

The Second District Court of Appeal ruled that California law requires parents to send their children to full-time public or private schools or have them taught by credentialed tutors at home.

Papers PLEASE! Ah yes, the state - the lovely all caring state. They know what is best for you. And they will find a way to make sure you comply with their standards.

You have schools full of “credentialed” teachers failing to educate the children in them and if you are no also so “credentialed” you cannot educate your own children. And of course, later on in the article, guess who is pleased with this ruling? If you said the monopolistic teacher’s union got get yourself a cookie.

“We’re happy,” said Lloyd Porter, who is on the California Teachers Association board of directors. “We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting.”

Translation: “We are pleased that we will continue to be able to monopolize the education of children in the State of California and teach them everything that we think is necessary and to hell with you.”

Maybe you can’t blame them. Home schooled students have been making the teacher’s union, their members and the public schools look bad for years. Of course they are going to enjoy seeing the competition wacked down a notch.

Now teach your children that homosexuality is normal, how to be a good Muslim and by The State they better be able to put that condom on that banana properly of so help us we’ll get you!

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