Do you agree with the banning of Home Schooling as decided by a California Court of Appeal Ruling?”
California has a thriving and diverse home school movement that includes anywhere between 150,000 to 200,000 kids, and a very small percentage of them have credentialed parents (which would be required, under this law). In spite of that, these kids are getting into prestigious schools such as Stanford, Yale and Harvard. They are winning nationwide science, math and spelling competitions. For the vast majority of parents who are home-schooling, it is a huge commitment, and they take the job most seriously. There is a way to balance a parent’s universal right to be their child’s teacher, the child’s right to obtain a decent education, and the state’s obligation to see that the child’s right is met, and it was stated best in an editorial in today’s San Jose Mercury: “The California Supreme Court should cede to the Legislature the task of creating minimally intrusive regulations over home schools.
