Please support homeschooling by standing by the Long family in California.?

Question

This is a letter I sent to the Gov. of CA. Please do likewise!

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,

Thank you for the reply to my previous letter concerning the judges' ruling about home-schooling in the State of California.

I realize after reading it that I neglected a very important point.

The Long family!

It is important to me and to all home-school parents across the country that this family's rights should be restored.

The court ruling took away their right to enroll their children in the private school program of which they are affiliated. And it denies them the proper choice in raising their children according to their parental choices.

Please do whatever is possible to make this family whole again by empowering them to be able to train their children and teach them again in their own home.

Thank you very much for your time.

Barbara Besaw, SACHSNews editor

Answer 1

Do you really want the HS movement to be seen supporting parents who abuse their children? OK, so we don't know they're guilty, but we don't know they're innocent either. Argue the HS issue by all means but I would be very, very careful about automatically jumping to their defence just because they HS. If you personally know them and believe they are innocent then by all means fight for them, but otherwise, well just think how this could play out. 20 years of abuse claims? Not good PR for HS.

Answer 2

I support ya, Im going to be getting everyone I know to be sending a letter to Cali (i live in connecticut!!!!)

Answer 3

Thanks NJRoadie. I appreciate getting another point-of-view, especially one outside of fear.

Does anyone have any news articles in reference to the oldest child's claims of abuse? I support homeschooling (after all, I do homeschool) but I am concerned about the claims of child abuse.

Edit: I found the actual court papers, 20 years of abuse claims

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:-gf...

Answer 4

Hi Barb :)

I will gladly send a letter to the Governor as should other parents too!

Since CA has this ripple affect on the rest of the country than we most certainly should stand up and support the issue and the family that is being treated unfairly. Just because there "might" be abuse in the home, doesn't mean that the child services there in CA isn't able to do their job and handle the situation even with them being out of the public school system!!!!!

Answer 5

http://www.hsc.org/Appellatedecision

Please check this page for accurate, up to date information about the CA ruling.

Answer 6

I support your decision for not wanting homeschooling kids to attend some kind of public/private school. There are alot of important answers why children homeschool. Some live in dangerous neighborhoods because they do not have alot of money. And their parents do not want them to be involved in the neighborhood violence. Various websites are talking about the new rule. Sorry about the homeschooling problem, if it becomes illegal then it will affect hundreds of thousands of homeschoolers.