California homeschooling laws!!!?

Question

In California, parents who home school must have a teaching credential!!! It is the only state that has this restriction, and I live in California!! My mom wants to home school me, but doesn't have a teaching credential. Any advice?? Are there any other California (or, more specifically, San Diego) home schoolers??

Answer 1

I'm in Cali, my mom homeschools my sister without a teaching credential.  Your mom can legally teach you without any credentials.  Check out the laws on hslda.org.  Hope it works out!

Answer 2

Take a look at Penn Foster, you don't need a parent with teaching credential and its legal in CA

Answer 3

That's not true. The law says that the parent must be capable of teaching. Capable has never been defined by the courts as having a teaching credential.

Read the law at www.hslda.org

Answer 4

Thank goodness that California shows good sense.

Answer 5

contact the homeschool legal defense association in your area. the web site is http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1

good luck!!!

Answer 6

If you go through a charter school, your mother does not need a teaching credential.