Please sign the HSLDA petition for Home Schooled Children.?

Question

Here is the link to the petition. The petition is well explained and the children and parents of California really need everyone's support! Anyone from anywhere in the country can sign it. So please help support our families' right to teach their children at home.

https://www2.hslda.org/Registrations/DepublishingCaliforniaCourtDecision/

Answer 1

I'm not in CA either, and my hubby and I gladly signed it.  :-)

Answer 2

I've signed it.

This is a huge problem.  It is everyone's issue.  If we want to maintain ANY type of freedom we must work hard to protect and restore the basic tenets of our God given rights.

As judges and lawmakers take more and more control of our lives we will become like stupid sheep in the slaughter pen.

Every man, woman and child should wake up and realize that if we allow other people to control our every move (instead of using our own brains and sense to do what is right) we will soon be unable to do anything at all without the permission of the so-called "government".  Um.. duh... I thought WE as people are the government... self-government is far more important than dictatorial type rule of law.  Do we really want other people deciding when and how we wipe our own (hm...snip...).

I know thousands of children that are home-schooled.  I am a support  leader / moderator for internet email groups of home-schooled families.  I am also the editor of our local home-school newletter.  And I am a seller of home-school curriculum.

Parents are the BEST teachers for their own children.  All they have to do is think --- they have 20+ years of experience in living life and can teach everything they know PLUS all the new stuff as they learn it to their children.   We are NOT idiots.  

China.  A fine example of loss of freedom.  Babies have been KILLED for many years by government workers and by fearful parents.  They are not "allowed" by law to have complete families.  They can have only the number of children allowed by the "people" in charge.  OMGoodness -- is this what we want in our country?  If our country had China's laws would YOU have been born or allowed to live after birth????????????????

Just because a group of people determines others to be inept or incapable of teaching does NOT make them right.

Sign the petition and protect the freedom of your friends and neighbors.  If freedoms are diminished now it will only carry over to more and more loss of liberty.  Someday it will come back to bite --- because other freedoms that you enjoy will be gone too.

Imagine a day when you are not allowed to walk down the sidewalk at certain hours of the day or ever.  Imagine a day when computers are banned and only judges and legislators will have them.  Imagine a day when money is abolished and free trade is ended -- you will be given a number and a place in line to be handed a loaf of bread and a bowl of broth.  

Do we want to become like Germany prior to WW2?

LEARN YOUR HISTORY!  Those who ignore it are destined to repeat it.  (familiar quote?)

Answer 3

Thank you for posting. Will do.

This isn’t about what other people think my child needs to learn, it is about a parents right to choose. The day public schools have no drugs in the halls, have no shootings, stabbings or beatings, have no pedophile teachers, turn out only literate graduates and manage to see at least 98% of their students graduate; I'll think about letting them tell me what I need to know in order to teach my child. Until then, they’ll have to grant me my basic right to raise and educate my offspring in the manner I see fit.

Answer 4

I've signed it.

Oddly this is the first I've heard about that decision. How horrible, soon they'll start telling us how many kids we're allowed to have.

Answer 5

Sorry, I support the legislation one hundred percent and hope ALL states will follow suit. It's about time! I hope ALL the states will impose the same law for the sake of the children, many are being "taught" by parents who have more hubris than brains, and this is a great beginning. Let's keep it going!

Answer 6

We've signed it, as have every person to whom we sent the link.

Folks, keep this in mind...court decisions are used to set precedents for all states.  First homeschoolers...then private schools...then your state's curriculum....then.....

Answer 7

Based on the data presented, I have "signed" it.

I believe as long as the basic legal criteria for the basic things children need to learn are met, and the children are NOT taught overtly illegal actions that physically harm other individuals, the government has no right at all to force one mode of education on all.  One education doe not fit all, anymore than one size of clothing fits all.

My children had the benefits of public schools, home schooling, and a protestant church-run large certified school, at various times.  All were beneficial in their own ways, but having home-schooling and church-affiliated schooling before the majority of the public schooling was very beneficial to the children, and gave them a big head-start over the kids who got the public school education pablum all the way.

I do have to admit there were problems, since they were farther advanced in many areas such as language skills and science and music than their contemporaries who had just the public schools to teach them.  

The public schools did not know how to handle advanced knowledge levels.  And tended to sit on them as disruptive rather than teach them more.  But they learned quickly to pretend dumb in the public schools.  Only harmed them somewhat!

Answer 8

Both the replies here from "qualified" homeschoolers who can't even spell or use the spell-checker, and articles in the link you cite, have convinced me that the California courts have got it right. Sample rationale from one of the WND articles:

<<The father, Phillip Long, said ... he won't allow the pro-homosexual, pro-bisexual, pro-transgender agenda of California's public schools ... to indoctrinate his children.>>

This guy is a nut case. California schools have no such agenda. Why do you want to try to interfere in another states's judicial process? You should inform yourself by means of a less biased source.

Answer 9

The decision is of course asinine, but, not being a California resident, I don't have a dog in this fight.  Best bet: talk to your people in the California legislature; this needs a legislative rather than a judicial fix.

Answer 10

I was homeschooling my children when it was 'a religious church thing' and Michigan tried to out law it. Our biggest supporter was a professor form Berkley in CAL. The biggest issue was non certified teachers,we proved this shouldn't be a issue but if that is what they want,then OK we will have a certified teacher oversee each Homeschool Assoc.. When we lived in England(we were missionary's)Homeschooling was legal,you just had to register,but in Germany to was outlawed. I was told it was to keep Turkish immigrants from keeping their kids from attending school under the guise of homeschooling.I think it was more than that but I couldn't get anyone to tell me..Here in the states we have Laws protecting us and giving us the right to seek our own faith.

Answer 11

Refugio...

California often sets the tone for much of the U. S. in terms of legislation and court decisions.

This is of great interest to anyone in the U.S. who homeschools.

Here is a link that gives details about what is being talked about in regards to school agenda...