"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."
As my friend David would say, "That's just stupid."
I hope California is now ready for a wave of lawsuits from former homeschooling parents whose kids will now be exposed to whatever their parents were trying to protect them from -- violence, offensive material, religious infringement, etc.
We don't homeschool our kids, but we're huge fans of parents being in control of their child's education, and you can bet that if we lived in, say, violent South Central Los Angeles or liberal Marin County or "alternative lifestyle"-friendly San Francisco, I'd want to exercise my right to educate my children at home.
"The first and most important thing to say about John Dominic Crossan's work is that it is bad history."
- D.A. Carson
- D.A. Carson
Friday, March 7, 2008
I feel a little bit sorry for the government officials and politicians of California. This judge has opened a can of worms, and the fallout will be enormous. Homeschooling is HUGE, and homeschoolers are smart and politically savvy and now motivated in California to find out who's for them and who's against them. The politicians had better start lining up in support of parents' rights to educate their own children, or they'll face problems in getting elected/reelected.