California Liberals on the Attack with Parents Who Home School

By Carisa Silvesan, published Mar 10, 2008
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Being a new home schooler here in Texas for about four weeks now, it caught my attention, when someone on MySpace posted a topic regarding home schooling in California on an abortion debate board. Upon reading the link, provided by Focus on the Family, regarding the information about the new California legal opinion, I was shocked to find out that California Home School parents may actually be required to be licensed as a teacher in the state of California in order to home school their own children.

Although the court documents state that the parent and/or person teaching the child at home must be "a person holding a valid state teacher credential for the grade being taught", there is, in actuality, no specific definition of who must teach the child written in the California Education Code itself other than "a person capable to teach." The State, in the court documents, used Education code 48220 to backup their statement that a parent must hold a teaching credential in order to home school their child. However, when examined, it is clear that no such definition exists within Education Code 48220.

This legal opinion coming out of California is no surprise regarding the fact that it is a very liberal state. So, home schoolers everywhere - beware! If this opinion sticks there is a guarantee that soon it will push through other states quickly. But, why is the California court so adamant about this opinion?

 
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  • Recent court findings in California for Home Schooled children and their parents
  • Actual legal definitions in the California State Education Code
  • Possible reasons for the court opinion.
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California's decision is very confusing to me since homeschool kids score higher than those in public and private school.

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Posted on 03/14/2008 at 10:03:02 AM

 
I've learned here that Less is More. I step off the stump and go back to teaching.

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Posted on 03/10/2008 at 5:03:43 PM

 
I'm a California liberal who has home-schooled my two boys for the last 7 years. I'm not sure how having liberal political ideas relate to the desire to teach my children what info I and my wife have collected over the years. We met at UCBerkeley at Space Sciences Lab about 19 years ago. She was a technician, I was an engineer. We are both musicians. We've been having a wonderful time living with our children and teaching them, along with learning from them. I like knowing the problems they have and what they are doing to solve them. When they went to public school, I might hear something about school or how much homework there is along with the latest news about Iraq. The disconnect was very clear. It took some work to get us into the position we are in today. We don't work. We farm our land. We have had excellent SAT scores from our boys without getting any "Study for the SAT" guides. Both our boys have benefited from spending a major part of their lives with their paren

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Posted on 03/10/2008 at 5:03:49 PM

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