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FWIW, Ace sez the El Lay Times got the story wrong.

Well, there goes our home-grown, well educated, future scientists and engineers

"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."

So that's why the "Gooberment is building internment camps" everywhere! They must have places to imprison 332,000 parents!!! Talk about freedom down the tubes!

V the K,

Let's hope Gabriel has this right. I'm still not hopeful in the long run though. "Mandatory" and "banned" are a couple of the Moonbats' favorite words.

According to California Catholic Daily, the Home School Legal Defense Association says parents have a LEGAL RIGHT to teach their own children and the banning of it is what is illegal. It is going back to the courts and ain't over yet.

http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=98ea934a-9fc5-4660-823c-f901f08c96f2

I just about hurled a jug of my best shine at the computer when I read that the NEA is all for the ruling because children need to be educated by "certified professionals". What is their profession? Brainwashing a new generation of sheeple that will worship at the alter of the Moonbat.

Well Farmer, I think you sized that up accurately.
The profession part would be a combo; Gestapo/SS Stormtrooper I think. Maybe the State of California has a "job description" for that on their website???

Well first off you have good old G.W. to thank for the sorry state our education is in. "No child left behind" my ass.

Secondly, I don't see how having kids learn from their parents is the best thing for them. They get no advanced opportunities and miss out on many courses that only schools can provide. I would hate to be homeschooled, because being in a public school has giving me so many opportunities my parents could never give no matter how much they wanted to. It's not their fault they can't teach me a Calculus class, it's just how it is.

And finally, I have to say I love the customary right wing bash that for some strange reasons says all left leaners are communist polysexuals. Very original. I am a left leaner and I have to say I love living in a capitalistic country, it gives me many opportunities I could never have in a Socialism.

Anon,
Obviously you didn't attended the class on the government. The CONGRESS writes the laws the President then sometimes signs them into law. If you can remember the public was screaming for improvements in public education. Unfortunately the Congress didn't recognize that the whole educational system is broken. No child left behind was a good idea but with too many loopholes and more importantly it was left up to the government to administer the program. So you see what happens when the school system is left up to the federal government to run it.

Anon,

Many homeschoolers do a fine job and use the same texts and criteria that many pricey private schools use and their kids participate in sports and extra curricular activities through private schools. Home schooling, because it is organized and supported through national groups is much better than you think. It beats the crap out of a school hiring a math teacher who spends the whole period teaching political beliefs contrary to the home environment the kids come from or having your children taught values contrary to their family values. Government schools indoctrinate children to believe what they want them to believe and quit teaching them to think for themselves long ago. That's why the kids protesting at Berkeley couldn't explain to anyone why they believed the War in Iraq was wrong but could hold up signs like F*ck Neo-Conservative Nazis or Death to Fundamentalist Christians! I'd rather see my kids learn to state their beliefs and support them with facts than be able to do that and not know why.

Has anyone knoticed the upspike of firearm sales in CA today?

Related? Nah, couldn't be.

People are fleeing California in record numbers and taking their money (and jobs) with them.

Wonder why?

Didja notice - if you look at the housing market - it only sucks in liberal enclaves?

Wonder why?

"White flight" may actually be defined as "get as far away from the dipshit liberals as possible". It has nothing to do with color - everything to do with liberalism. And since liberals don't have a clue as to how to take care of themselves, things go to hell post-haste.

Screw every damned one of them - right down to the very last hash freaking fanantic.

Nice try anon, but our public education system has been atrocious long before G Bush, though he hasn't helped. It started with the feel-good education policies of the 60's (whole reading, new math, etc). Jimmuh created a federal education cabinet position which really greased the skids

As a private school teacher I'm not a huge fan of homeschooling, but I respect the right to do so. Every study ever done shows homeschooled students to be normal kids with better than average test scores. BTW the last perfect score on the SAT was by a homeschooled kid. Are there some failures? Sure. But if you wanted to invent a system that would systematically keep minorities out of the middle class you couldn't do better than the Milwaukee Public schools. I call MPS my job security.

The individuals who seem to be most successful in homeschooling align themselves with other home schoolers and share talents and lend support. I went the private school route myself and volunteered time helping but I was impressed with the home school kids that came in to participate in athletics, gym classes, and clubs. Many private schools do that to enhance their students programs and support the efforts of the home schooling parents. I don't feel home schooling with the idea of isolating your children is effective, but networking with other home schooling parents and private schools works very well from what I have seen.

"HoosierArmyMom at March 8, 2008 9:29 AM"

Another good post.

If I haven't mentioned this before, those who are interested in public schooling from a historical and sociological perspective should check out anything written by John Taylor Gatto. He taught in the NYC public school system for 30 years, and won awards doing so, and became a vocal critic of "state education." Agree or disagree (I happen to agree), it's interesting stuff.

Legal or not, homeschooling should be banned outright.

They promised to adhere to controls and self-police and they failed to live up to their mandate, and such "rights" cannot be extended if the risk is another Waco or Jonestown, as a by-product.

There is NO oversight and that is unacceptable.