Only The State Can Teach Children Correctly
Original blog post:
http://www.william-mac.com/thisweekintime/only-the-state-can-teach-children-correctly/.htm
Excerpt:
"When I heard about the California state appellate court ruling in declaration of stricter mandates concerning home schooling, I became more than enraged. The ruling essentially professes that parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home.
There is an estimated 166,000 students that are being home schooled in the large state of California. All of these children’s educations are at risk if this ruling were to pass indefinitely.
Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a letter on February 28, 2008 signed by himself and two other members of the district court that “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children… parents who fail to comply may be subjected to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program.”
This is ludicrous. The next thing you know, people will be telling me that I need to be enrolled in some kind of public or private school curriculum or in possession of some kind of degree before I can go out and buy books to educate myself with.
Even worse, A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, agrees with this absurd ruling.
No government of any kind under natural law holds the right to force children or their potential educators (in this case parents) to adhere to a state or federal curriculum of education. If anyone considers the majority of home schooled children to be indoctrinated by parents into believing whole-heartedly all that the Bible states, then this type of State indoctrination is even worse.
Considering the overwhelming and staggeringly consistent data that home school children perform better than other public or private school-aged children in the same subjects, the very thought that a public governmental entity would be in control of all that a child learns and believes is nothing short of communist tyranny at it’s most blatant. "
http://www.william-mac.com/thisweekintime/only-the-state-can-teach-children-correctly/.htm
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"When I heard about the California state appellate court ruling in declaration of stricter mandates concerning home schooling, I became more than enraged. The ruling essentially professes that parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home.
There is an estimated 166,000 students that are being home schooled in the large state of California. All of these children’s educations are at risk if this ruling were to pass indefinitely.
Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a letter on February 28, 2008 signed by himself and two other members of the district court that “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children… parents who fail to comply may be subjected to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program.”
This is ludicrous. The next thing you know, people will be telling me that I need to be enrolled in some kind of public or private school curriculum or in possession of some kind of degree before I can go out and buy books to educate myself with.
Even worse, A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, agrees with this absurd ruling.
No government of any kind under natural law holds the right to force children or their potential educators (in this case parents) to adhere to a state or federal curriculum of education. If anyone considers the majority of home schooled children to be indoctrinated by parents into believing whole-heartedly all that the Bible states, then this type of State indoctrination is even worse.
Considering the overwhelming and staggeringly consistent data that home school children perform better than other public or private school-aged children in the same subjects, the very thought that a public governmental entity would be in control of all that a child learns and believes is nothing short of communist tyranny at it’s most blatant. "