Home Schooling ILLEGAL!

[Liberté]

Wow! Now CA has outlawed homeschooling... Socialism is devouring our Nation.

[Highland]

yep...I want to immigrate to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation here in NC...I am only 1/16th but maybe if I wail on the door long enough (like the monks in the middle ages) they will let me in! lol

[wv@SC]

Time for you true Californians to complain to the Federal government in one of the only constitutional methods that you ever should. The Constitution guarantees to each of the states that enter the Union "a republican form of government".

While you're waiting for justice I would start looking at Plan B - getting out of the state before they make it to where you can't.

[Highland]

Time for you true Californians to complain to the Federal government in one of the only constitutional methods that you ever should. The Constitution guarantees to each of the states that enter the Union "a republican form of government".

While you're waiting for justice I would start looking at Plan B - getting out of the state before they make it to where you can't.

I emailed the ACLU of LA.....they will get on it...

[american.swan]

I emailed the ACLU of LA.....they will get on it...

Referendom anyone???????? California is one state where Referendoms can be used....

[Tdcci]

Homeschooling by unqualified persons was always illegal, the statute was challenged in 1954 and nothing changed, it was one of the cases cited in the recent decision.

[allyinoh]

Homeschooling by unqualified persons was always illegal, the statute was challenged in 1954 and nothing changed, it was one of the cases cited in the recent decision.

And who has the power to dictate who is or is not unqualified? If you want to teach your child, you should have the right to do so. You not the government should have say over how you raise your child.

[Sandra]

I have to take classes every so often to home school. I needed them! I suck at English and Math!

[kyleAF]

I have to take classes every so often to home school. I needed them! I suck at English and Math!
1.
The oil blip is the only reason that calculus is known by more than a few people. The oil blip is the incredibly short span of time that the world will have known easy energy (roughly 200 years of history).

Think about that for a while... for every 1 calorie of food produced today, 10 calories of fossil fuels must be used.

If you struggle to find food, you rarely struggle to worry about school.

2.
Fact is: children learn English just fine on their own... humans learn languages growing up just by hearing them. If you are able to read phonetically, then you are more qualified to teach your child to read than are the public school teachers who use the "whole concept", or "whole word" method. My mother (no college education) taught me to read (and do basic arithmetic) long before I entered preschool.

Math need only be taught at a basic level. A textbook can do the rest if you don't stultify a child's mind by compelling them to sit still in a box for 8 hours a day.

The only reason people aren't "qualified" to teach their kids is because these same people were "taught" in the public school system. It's a vicious cycle and MUST be broken.

Public schools be damned. Free (not compulsory) education means Free people.

[ForrestLayne]

Petition on the HSLDA website

http://www.hslda.org/ (This is the Home School Legal Defense Association)

You can sign the petition to support Homeschool Freedom in California (and everywhere in the US)
Even if you do not homeschool please consider signing the petition to protect our freedoms!

[ToryNotion]

Hold your horses. The article below claims that the LA Time misunderstood the ruling
and that it only applies to the case under review so home schooling in Cali is not in
jeopardy...

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/257230.php#257230

[Waldo]

Just an FYI, the following is an email I received from my homeschooling email group. It's a respectable source, take it for what it's worth...

>Subject: A Plea From California
>
>At some point, and you may already have, you will probably receive an
e-mail
>asking you to sign a petition about the court case in California.
PLEASE do
>NOT sign it! What it really is about isn't California but more scare
>tactics and part of a membership drive.
>
>Homeschool is still very much alive and LEGAL in California. We do
NOT need
>hysteria fueled by HSLDA! The last time they did this we almost lost our
>right to homeschool. Please don't feed into their hysteria.
>
>If you have questions, then go to the HSC (Homeschool Association of
>California) or CHN (California Homeschool Network). Leslie Buchanan is
>Board President of HSC and has let us know that the legal teams of the
>California homeschooling groups are meeting and will deal with this. IF,
>let me repeat myself here, IF the legal teams feel that California needs
>help, then HSC and CHN will send out a message asking for help.
>
>Just sign me, a California homeschooling mom who would like to get
back to
>homeschooling and spend less time putting out unnecessary fires <g>
>
>P.S. Please feel free to forward!


-Waldo

[gutteck]

Tell your children to go to school to learn how the government want them stupid. Then come home and give a dam about what the school teaches, don’t’ do homework and just go for the D-.

Tell them the truth and help them pursuit their dreams. Teach them to discard the excrement taught to them in school and keep only the real knowledge and the rest of the indoctrination to throw it down the toilet.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Homeschooling by unqualified persons was always illegal, the statute was challenged in 1954 and nothing changed, it was one of the cases cited in the recent decision.

Unqualified? That's none of the government's business. The government is unqualified

[Meatwasp]

When we tried to home school our boys in Calif in the 60's they wouldn't let us unless one of us had a teacher's credential. My husband had a Bachelor's degree so he was qualified to teach for two years in a small school and then he got his credentials He asked for the law and that is when we found out that we lived far enough from school we didn't even need credentials.