California Home Schoolers-Get Mobilized NOW-Don't Lose your Right to Homeschool

Home schooling unlawful, says California court:
Nothing is wrong with your eyes. You read that sentence right.

A three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal has determined parents in that state have no legal right to home school. A Christian attorney in Sacramento says unless the ruling is reversed, literally thousands of students in the Golden State will be subject to criminal sanctions.

California Justice H. Walter Croskey has stated in an opinion that "parents who fail to [comply with school enrollment laws] may be subject to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program." The opinion was issued in the case of one family who enrolled their daughter in Sunland Christian School, a private home-schooling program based in Sylmar.

The ruling reverses an earlier opinion from a Superior Court that found that "parents have a constitutional right to school their children in their own home." But in his reversal, Croskey refers to the "ruse of enrolling [children] in a private school and then letting them stay home and be taught by a non-credentialed parent."

Brad Dacus, president of the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute, calls the scope of the decision "breathtaking."

"It not only attacks traditional home schooling, but also calls into question home schooling through charter schools and teaching children at home via independent study through public and private schools," he explains.

According to Dacus, the ruling goes against prior court decisions. "Case law in federal court and by the U.S. Supreme Court [has] already recognized that parents have a fundamental right over the education of their children," he points out. "And in fact, the lower-court judge in this decision ... actually ruled that these parents had a constitutional right to home school their children. But it was reversed by this three-judge panel in this appellate court."

Dacus says an appeal has already been filed by his firm on the school's behalf. "We're going to try to have this decision non-published and specifically tabled until a final determination by the State Supreme Court," he says. And if the decision is not reversed, says the attorney, "more than 166,000 students currently receiving an education at home will be subject to criminal sanctions."

For the time being, the decision affects four counties in the Los Angeles metro area. Sunland Christian School, says the Pacific Justice Institute, has been in full compliance with the requirements of California law for more than 20 years.

The words echo the ideas of officials from Germany, where homeschooling has been outlawed since 1938 under a law adopted when Adolf Hitler decided he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation's youth.

I almost fell over in my chair when I read about this horrific, unconstitutional ruling in California.
Homeschool Parents everywhere in California need to mobilize and call their State Congressmen and State Senators and Gov. Schwarzenegger telling them that this ruling is unacceptable and blatantly unconstitutional. This Judge Croskey should be disbarred and thrown off the bench. However, I don't believe the legislature will do that since they are a bunch of spineless wimps.


Well, throughout history, it is folks like Hitler and his fellow Liberal facists who attack homeschooling. Even in the last edition of Harry Potter, the first thing Lord Voldemort does is make schooling at Hogwarts mandatory.
Why?
Well, studies indicate that conservatives have more children and that there is a strong likelihood that children will grow up with the same or similar worldview as their parents.

Which means - by default - those who have more children will be the ideological majority.

So what better way to undermine the influence of parents than forcing children into public schools? Public schools where contempt for conservative values, religion, and morality is the first lesson crammed down kids’ throats.

We cannot sit idly by and watch the Liberal Facists take our Homeschooling rights away.
Fight back by first joining the HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association)http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1
Second, call/email/write your legislators, wherever you live, telling them that you are Pro-Homeschool and will only vote for those legislators that are pass Pro-Homeschooling rights.
Third, vote only for Pro-Homeschool Congressmen and Senators.
Last, but Most important: Pray and keep Praying that God would give us Godly leaders in Governmental Office.
Jimbo