Homeschooling in California
California’s home schooling laws have sucked for as long as I can remember, but a lot of people are just now figuring that out. The Governator wants to amend the laws in question. Great idea, if he can pull it off. Otherwise, Californians who wish to home school their children basically have three options:
- Flout the law, but do a better job raising and educating your kids than the Long family appears to have done for theirs, and trust that the Education Police will have more important things to do rather than go after you.
- Waste a few thousand dollars and a year of your life taking worthless education classes to get a teaching credential.
- Take advantage of a little-known U.S. immigration law that allows all Californians to immigrate here without a visa.
There’s been a fair amount of buzz in the blogosphere, with varying quality. Over at Q and O, Dale Franks has a pretty good piece, while his co-blogger McQ has a downright loopy one. Gabriel Malor strains logic conclude the law is no big deal since parents are free to file a “private school affidavit” the state is under no obligation to accept, and probably won’t. By that logic, he might as well argue that DC’s handgun ban is no big deal, either, as any DC resident can possess a handgun by becoming a cop.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Just reason #4,578 that I will never voluntarily live in California (again. The first time, I was 8 and my parents were in charge).
March 8th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Homeschooling is for lazy rednecks. If you can spend seven hours a day homeschooling your kid, you can spend seven hours a day working to make the money to send her to a good school.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Remember! If you don’t like the law, you can elect different representatives to overturn the bad law in question or to even vote in a new one to be signed into law by the Governor elected by The People!
March 9th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Home schooling is illegal in California. Most home schoolers are Christians and all they know to do is fearmonger. Just look at this as an example!
http://www.cftie.org/2007/12/sb-777-will-per.html
March 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am
nk, my sarcasm detector doesn’t know what to make of you right now.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
[...] Homeschooler? Don’t even think about moving to California. [...]
March 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Anwyn, imagine me as a Californian. Say from Berkeley? (No offense, Xrlq, I am certain that you have risen above it.)
March 20th, 2008 at 8:00 am
to nk,
those of us who spent 7 hours a day homeschooling our children didn’t need to work outside the home to send our children to good colleges; they were highly educated and scored so well on their SATs and ACTs, that the colleges, including the Ivy League, were begging us to send our children to them. Our recycle bins overflowed with offers. BTW, by the time my children were in homeschool high school, they could read Aristotle in the original scripts–methinks, perhaps the lazy rednecks are those sending their children to public school instead of taking responsiblity for their children’s education themselves.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Aristotle. I should have guessed. The perpetuation of the myth of white, European, male, intellectual superiority. You probably taught them English literature, American history and mathematics, too. And not a word or ebonics, right?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Here you go, guys. The best argument for homeschooling yet if the link works: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/258617.php