California Court Criminalizes Home Schooling

One of the alternatives parents have to sending their kids to our failing, Godless, and secular humanist-driven government schools are home-schools. Parents teach their children at home. They purchase curriculum packages from various sources. Many home schooling parents believe that the government schools teach a worldview that is in conflict with their belief system. Who knows their children better than a child’s parents?

Many conservative Christians, who believe the inspiration of the Judeo-Christian Bible and the God of that Bible, are among those who sacrifice to teach their children themselves. The not only pay taxes to our inept educational system they pay for textbooks and programs in order to teach their children. They may also forgo jobs, that they otherwise might have. Home schooled children do as well as or better than the government indoctrination center graduates.

Time/CNN reported on Friday (3/7/2007) that the “Parents of the approximately 200,000 home-schooled children in California are reeling from the possibility that they may have to shutter their classrooms — and go back to school themselves — if they want to continue teaching their own kids. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by credentialed teachers in public or private schools — or at home by Mom and Dad, but only if they have a teaching degree. Citing state law that goes back to the early 1950s, Croskey declared that "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children."

The Time/CNN article continued, “This news raised a furor among home schooling advocates, including government officials. "Every California child deserves a quality education and parents should have the right to decide what's best for their children," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement today. "Parents should not be penalized for acting in the best interests of their children's education. This outrageous ruling must be overturned by the courts and if the courts don't protect parents' rights then, as elected officials, we will."”

OneNewsNow.com in their report on this court decision quoted Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, as describing the court decision as being , “"an imperious assault on the rights of parents."

"How dare these judges have the audacity to label tens of thousands of parents criminals – the equivalent of drug dealers or pickpockets – because they want to raise and educate their children according to their deeply held values?" Dr. Dobson said.

"The case before them involved one couple – the ruling should have been confined to that one couple, not used to punish an entire class of people, the vast majority of them religious conservatives," Dr. Dobson continued.

This case most likely will be appealed to the California Supreme Court. This is just another case of persecuting religious conservatives. The left, including activist judges, are willing to tolerate everyone except and especially Christian conservatives. Here is just another example of their intolerance.