California homeschooling?

Question

I just heard that homeschooling was made illegal in california.. can anyone verify this?

Answer 1

PLEASE SIGN MY PETITION ON HERE!!!! I am sending it on to HSLDA to Use in the fight in CA PLEASE SIGN!

Answer 2

Not illegal.  Just requires a credentialed teacher.  

I'm not sure if my family would be considered legal, as my husband has the credentials, but I'm the one who homeschools the kids.  

This won't change a thing that I am doing, except that  I think I won't even file the R4 next year.   I only filed this year to play by their silly rules.  s***w 'em.

Answer 3

yep it's true. go to drudgereport.com

Answer 4

i heard they are trying to make it illegal, i got an email wanting me to sign a petition, but its probably a hoax

Answer 5

The oldest daughter of this family was posting online today.  She says claims of child abuse are a LIE.  She thinks her mother is a good teacher.

The judge claims that parents have "no constitutional rights" to determine how to school their children.  This is NOT A HOAX...this needs to go to the supreme court.

However, I purchased a study guide at Barnes and Noble for the teachers certification exam.  Let me tell you, my children could both pass this test with ease.  I plan to let them.  Then they will be "certified" to teach themselves.  Those teachers are such freaking morons, it is hard to imagine that they are "proud of their certification"....LOL

Answer 6

No, not really. If you are registered as a private school, it shouldn't affect you in the least because you naturally attend the school. ANYBODY can file to be a private school. Where it might get tricky for a bit is those registered through charter schools--the judge seemed to think that doing that and being at home guiding your child's education as you saw fit didn't meet the law. It won't last long.

Answer 7

Not exactly. What happened was that an app elite court judge, in his ruling on a juvenile court case about alleged abuse where the kids were *also* being homeschooled, said that

1-the is no constitutional right in CA to homeschool and

2-CA law says that students must spend the required number of hours per school day either in a school or with a 'credentialed' teacher.

Those two things disqualify the learning situations of many of CA's homeschooled kids.

However, it all depends on whether this ruling is limited to the one case where (allegedly) abusive parents might be told that *they* cannot homeschool (since their method of homeschooling may have been a part of their abusive pattern...although, if they are abusive, the homeschooling shouldn't be an issue...getting the kids away from the parents for 6 hours out of 24-hour days does not stop abuse), or if the ruling is allowed to be a precedent for other cases. If it is allowed to be used as a precedent, all the homeschoolers in CA could potentially be affected.

We will see...