Wednesday, April 02, 2008
California and Home Schooling
My first take on this was "they are mandating a lesser education"; however, how would one really know?
My second thought is that government and the unions are doing a lousy job here; and the taxpayers and their children are suffering from the results...
My second thought is that government and the unions are doing a lousy job here; and the taxpayers and their children are suffering from the results...
This is from an opinion column on the Wall Street Journal's editorial page:
"A California court ruled this month that parents cannot 'home school' their children without government certification. No teaching credential, no teaching. Parents 'do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,' wrote California appellate Justice Walter Croskey.
The 166,000 families in the state that now choose to educate their children at home must be stunned. But at least one political lobby likes the ruling. 'We're happy,' the California Teachers Association's Lloyd Porter told the San Francisco Chronicle. He says the union believes all students should be taught only by 'credentialed' teachers, who will in due course belong to unions."
