Friday, March 7, 2008

California Court of Appeals say its illegal to homeschool

This one of the first things I heard this morning, as I was getting ready to head to our homeschool co-op. A state appeals court has decided California parents, without teaching credentials, do not have a right to home-school their children. The 200,000 homeschooling families in California are now criminals.

I heard someone say there is an estimated 2 million homeschooling families in the United States. Several people I talked with today said that this is a gross under estimate. Most homeschooling parents' fear is this will snowball into every state. And they should. Each of the 50 State's political arenas will see this as a stepping block into controlling homeschooling families.


Where did our Constitutional rights go?

TAKE ACTION
HSLDA is asking concerned citizens across America to sign a petition asking the state Supreme Court to "depublish" the case, which means to apply the case to the family involved — not to all California families. Basically it will limit this ruling from growing and spreading. Please, even if you don't homeschool, sign this petition. One day your rights, that your truly believe in, could be in jeopardy too.

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