A state appellate court in California has ruled homeschooling illegal.
Fight for your rights, homeschoolers. Heck, you might want to consider adding marksmahship to your curriculim. This strikes at one of the most fundamental rights we have: the right of parents to oversee the education of their children. All other teachers operate only in loco parentis. Remind a teacher of that next time he or she gets uppity with you.
Lifesite.com also has a story.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Memo to liberal judges: we will homeschool whether you like it or not
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Holy hell, thank you California judges, I had no idea that I am unfit for society because my parents gave me a decent education by themselves and kept me from being immersed in a culture of debauchery and immorality.
I now have a strong urge to beat someone severely. Faith-based and liturgy-based catechesis move over: it's time for violence-based catechesis.
I expect this kind of attitude in Germany but not here. Seriously, a holdover of German politics from the 1930's to the mid-1940's made homeschooling illegal, and that law stands to this day.
Correct me please, but I thought the doctrine of in loco parentis was obsolete or abandoned or superseded or something. I just seem to remember reading that.
Gary - abandoned by whom?
Scoot,
I dunno. Unfortunately I don't have children and so am not really up to speed on this, but I have vague memory of reading somewhere that some state's court of last resort had ruled that there was no in loco parentis, and that is why corporal punishment, for example, was to be prohibited in that state. Same goes for expectation of privacy in school lockers, etc. Since the school is no longer in loco parentis, it can't rifle through your things. In that state.
Anyway. That's kind of what I remember reading, but surely there must be a lawyer or someone sitting next to me here at the bar of The Blue Boar who can correct me.
Parents are always the primary teachers of their children. *We* created public schools only to assist us in that effort.
Now the servant wishes to be master.
You know what is required here in Arkansas to home school your kids? You go by the local school district office and fill out a form that says "I am home schooling my kids".
They take a couple of state tests over the years, too, but individual results aren't even tracked, it's just for keeping tabs on how certain age groups and areas are doing compared to state and national averages.
Parents have complete freedom here, and no bureaucrats looking over their shoulders. There are advantages to being "backward" when forward is a headlong plunge over a cliff.
Caedite eos! Nevit enim Dominus qui sunt elus!
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