How do state laws affect you as a homeschooler?

Question

Unfortunately CA has made us all aware that while homeschooling has come a long way we still have too many against us.

If your state suddenly ruled that homeschooling was illegal - and it was not going to be overturned - what would you do? Would you put your child in school or move?

I am grateful we have the privelage to homeschool!

Answer 1

I would take the back-door option where I live--register as a private school. Has a few more complications than being registered as a homeschooler (yes, we have to register where I live), but it'd work. Then I'd work with other homeschoolers on showing the government how they have unjustly removed our rights as parents. A free and democratic country shouldn't be acting like dictators in the education and raising of children.

Answer 2

LOL!

As a home-educating family, our state's laws have very little, if any, effect on us. This is because:

i) we live in Australia where pretty much everyone from Parliament downwards considers rules and laws as little more than things which are made to be broken and are meant to be broken; there is much to be said for having your culture and country built on a criminal past!

ii) home-education is, in practice, managed differently depending on a family's access to the conventional school system. In common with many other home-educating families, our closest school is at least a 16hr drive from our house.

Insisting on compulsory schooling (rather than education) would very soon bankrupt the country as the govt would be forced to provide and replicate all of the necessary school facilities, staff etc for each and every family individually. Therefore, despite the public face of regulated home-education in Australia, the government's attitude to remote families is very much one of: *don't  bother us and we won't bother you*.    

Pretty much the same as their attitude towards us, full stop. Apparently they were barely aware that there even were white families and white kids growing up out here until the mid-1950s!!!

PS If I was part of a Californian home-educating family right now, I'd be heaps more excited by the alleged implications of this ruling than anxious though. My attitude would very much be one of: 'Bring it on!. Let's argue this out in open court'. The 'education' argument is unsubstantiable once one starts looking at the research and comparisons twixt ps and home-ed...so let the 'powers-that-be' stand up in open court and reveal what we all know are the true reasons** why they want to ban home-education and instead herd all kids into 'their' schools.

**conformity and control.

Answer 3

I've read about that new "finding" by a court in CA, and it is BS, because most homeschooled kids aren't being "taught" by their parents, but go through a workbook curriculum, and so are being "taught" by the books. I'm sure the lawyers will dispute it.

Answer 4

I would move!  Fortunately, I live in Indiana and lots of people homeschool here, so I don't think I have to start packing yet.

Answer 5

I would continue to school them as I wished.  I would not put them in public school nor  would I comply with any laws I found to be an infringement upon my family's civil liberties.

If need be, I would fight.

Answer 6

I'm in a homeschool friendly state and own property in another homeschool friendly state, so I'd move, no question.

Answer 7

Our boys and ladies are in the middle east to protect our freedoms and a judge believes that he has the right to destroy our rights, something is seriously wrong. We do not live in Russia, the parents still have the right to educated our children the way we believe. Russia made both parents work so they could indoctrinate the next generation. Have we become socialist, Look deep enough and it is all about money and power and control. These are only the fruits of humanistic thinking and the other article on the same page talks about young people being shot down in a public school. We need to turn to the God of the Bible and repent and maybe God will shine his grace.