Many people are making a lot of noise deal about the California appeals court ruling that parents do not have the right under California law to homeschool their children. Justice H. Walter Croskey in a written opinion said, “California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.” The ruling further states that California law requires “persons between the ages of six and eighteen” to be in “public full-time day school,” or a “private full-time day school” or “instructed by a tutor who holds a valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught”.
Is this stupid or what? Parents should have the right to say where and how their children are educated. The case in question was filed as a result of alledged child abuse over the parents view that they have the right to spank their child as a form of discipline. While the parents won that fight over spanking and all charged were dropped, the current fight stemmed from that investigation… the two children were being homeschooled. I can thouroughly understand that parents do not want their childrent indoctrinated in the pro-homosexual, pro-bisexual, pro-transgender agenda that permeates our public schools.
And the parents are not lone warriors in this matter. The school they belong to, Sunland Christian School, has been offering homeschooling oporunities for years. Apparantly illegally. Why this school decided to operate outside the law as it relates to homeschooling is beyond me. What they should have done is sought to change the law before the dived into this murkey water.
So let’s be fair… if California law does not allow for homeschooling then that is the way it is. Don’t like it? Then activley pursue changing the law. Conservatives are constantly complaining about “judicial activism”… judges making the law instead of enforcing the law. But yet when the law does not fit convservative agenda’s then they seek to have judges make law.
After all we are a nation of laws and if “we the people” decide that a law needs to be changed then “we the people” need to get it in gear instead of whinning and asking courts to ignore the law. We want
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