Court says parents may operate home-schools

Home schooling is not specifically addressed in California law, the way it is in at least 30 other states. The Times' Seema Mehta reports that a state appellate court ruled today that parents may home-school their children in California even if the parents lack a teaching credential. The decision reverses the court's earlier position.

The state has an estimated 166,000 home-schoolers. And the state Department of Education has traditionally allowed home schooling as long as parents file paperwork with the state establishing themselves as private schools, hire credentialed tutors or enroll their children in independent study programs run by charter or private schools or public school districts.

California does little to enforce those provisions and insists that it is the local school districts' responsibility.

If you educate your children at home, or if you are a home-schooled student, tell us about your experiences.

-- Mary MacVean

Comments

[BillE]

Personally I'm all in favor of home schooling, school vouchers, or better yet, a tax credit for all parents who want to opt out of the public school circus in favor of having a freedom of choice in how their kids are educated. This tax credit should be equal to the amount extorted from our paychecks each month to feed a failing and agenda-driven public school system. Secularists and liberalists don't want our kids to pray out loud or read their Bible in school in fear of having their children exposed to the "horrors of Christianity." Well guess what...I don't want my tax dollars being spent on a system that does just the opposite, indoctrinating students in a secular world-view that teaches the laughable theory of evolution -- a bad theory that has long since been disproven and discredited, even in respected atheistic scientific circles; and yet it's still
being printed in our textbooks. I have much more to say on this subject. Check it out, if you care to at:

http://godsizedquestions.blogspot.com

God Bless.