California Court Criminalizes Home Schoolers.
Second District Court of Appeals in California has effectively banned Home schooling in the state and threatened parents that choose to teach their own children with criminal prosecution. "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," "Justice" H. Walter Croskey said in the ruling.From SFGateA California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.
The homeschooling movement never saw the case coming.
"At first, there was a sense of, 'No way,' " said homeschool parent Loren Mavromati, a resident of Redondo Beach (Los Angeles County) who is active with a homeschool association. "Then there was a little bit of fear. I think it has moved now into indignation."
Studies have shown that on average home schooled children score higher on standardized tests, even when taking into account the education and income level of their parents, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. So the argument that home schooled children are not getting a proper education is false. When in fact, many children who are in government schools are the ones getting short changed.
According to the US Dept Of Education the reasons why parents homeschool are as follows:
Thirty-one percent of homeschoolers had parents who said the most important reason for homeschooling was concern about the environment of other schools (figure 2). Thirty percent said the most important reason was to provide religious or moral instruction. The next reason was given about half as often; 16 percent of homeschooled students had parents who said dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at other schools was their most important reason for homeschooling.
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