California Court Rules Homeschooling Illegal

[Wretched Excess]

tenbaum wrote:
All of the teens you see in the time-intensive San Francisco Ballet are home-schooled. Many many kids are home-schooled for reasons other than religion.

arent most Hollywood kids homeschooled so they can film during the day?

Posted 3/6/2008 3:05:46 PM
Recommend (103)Report Abusetecumseh wrote:
This is all about money. California schools get paid by attendance and enrollment. Home schooling threatens that. So the judges appointed by Democrats beholden to public employee unions rule that they must attend school. Shocking. As for the "there's totalitarianism at religious schools, too" please explain to me how you can suffer under a totalitarian ruling at a school attended on a voluntary basis. Bay Area liberals think fascist = anything I don't like.

I read someplace last night that there are particular exceptions under california law for child actors.  believe it or not.

[DixieBelle]

So it's all about money and the unions I suspect.

[Wretched Excess]

^There seems to be a lot of New Agers who home school along with Fundamentalists. And of course the Hollywood crowd. It's not just one group of people with a strict set of beliefs. Homeschooling is practiced by a lot of people.

Where's the ACLU again?????

the legal grounds for homeschooling has historically been, on the SCOTUS level, at any rate, exemptions based on religious freedom*.  no way the ACLU touches it.

*the SCOTUS exempted the Amish, for example, from the legal requirments to send their children to public schools.

[Wretched Excess]

So it's all about money and the unions I suspect.

well, personally think that it's also about the educational establishment being reflexively and rabidly anti-God.

[DixieBelle]

^that too!!! Backdoor Socialism. Heck, front door Socialism!

[Lauri]

So it's all about money and the unions I suspect.

well, personally think that it's also about the educational establishment being reflexively and rabidly anti-God.

a lot of the comments on the SFGate article i posted above were anti-religious. the posters were saying, "anybody who keeps their kid out of public school to brainwash them into their fundie cults ought to be prosecuted for child abuse"  .. and that was the nicer comments.

most of the parents i know who homeschool dont do it for religious reasons at all. they just dont like all the social garbage in school and they want their kids to actually learn math and history. those kids typically outscore public school kids as well, so it shines another light on how poorly the public education sector is doing.

the public schools there must feel awfully threatened financially to be headed down this path - the parents need to get those legislators out of there PDQ.

[Ptarmigan]

I recalled reading somewhere that it was liberals who started homeschooling their own children. I have known people who were homeschooled. They were not religious. They were like you and me. They usually came from rural areas or had large families.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It'll be overturned on appeal. Jeez. What is it about California? 

Yeah, well, problem is that it sounds like this already WAS on the appeal, if so they can only take it to the CA Supreme Court from there, which probably does not have to accept it.  If the CA system can't take it any further they could try to jump it to the Fed courts as a Constitutional issue, tough row to hoe there though of course it's in the Ninth Circuit which could go hard over either way on an individual liberty vs. State power issue.