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California Court Rules Home-School Parents must be Accredited

Many home-based businesses are part of a life-style that can include home-schooling children. These "Mompreneurs" blend running a part-time home-based business with educating their children. The home-based business can be operated around the schooling schedule for the kids.

If a recent California state appellate court ruling holds up, those Mompreneurs might have to put their kids on a bus and ship them off to public school if they are not accredited teachers. From SignOnSanDiego.com:

"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the two other members of the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

The ruling has rattled home-school families in San Diego County and throughout California. It is the subject of much speculation on the blogs, Web sites and networks that link thousands of home-schoolers statewide.

The purpose of a Constitution is to define what powers that government does have, not define or limit what rights citizens have under that government.


Posted by Jeff Cornwall on March 7, 2008 06:39 AM |

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We home-schooled our two daughters and they are sought after for their ability and work ethic.

After high school, my wife danced for the Joffrey Ballet, never returned to school, and now runs a successful ballet school. She did the bulk of the teaching.

When we were making the decision to home-school our daughters in 1991, My wife was intimidated by her lack of accreditation. I asked a simple question that gave her the needed confidence that led to an incredible job, "Do you really believe that you do not have the knowledge and ability to teach a child through the sixth grade?" She took them through 9th grade and they were tutored through high–school under her leadership.

Home-schooling has come a long way since then - 1991. Home-schooled people, like Thomas Edison, are well known by colleges for their work ethic. In my opinion, this is a ploy to maintain attendance for fear of losing population based funding. San Diego’s choice is not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind.

Birdied by: GSH | March 7, 2008 12:30 PM

Agreed. What a scary, alarming decision.

Birdied by: Josh | March 7, 2008 12:57 PM

Here, here!

-- Jonathan
(Homeschooling Dad)

Birdied by: Jonathan Riggs | March 7, 2008 01:36 PM

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