HSLDA has a nation-wide petition to "depublish" the recent California
homeschooling decision, here:
https://www2.hslda.org/Registrations/DepublishingCaliforniaCourtDecision/
Also,
CA home school mom says 'we will have to move'
Jeff Johnson - OneNewsNow - 3/10/2008 9:15:00 AM
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=69301
Home schooling parents are reacting to a recent California appellate court
decision outlawing the practice.
Kathleen, a home school mom from near Sacramento was caught completely off
guard when she learned that a three-judge panel considering a child welfare
case -- had issued a blanket ruling declaring that California parents do not
have a constitutional right to home school their children. (see related story)
"I'm just shocked that it can happen quickly -- that our fundamental right to
educate our children can be taken away just with a snap of the fingers..." she
exclaims. The home school mother hopes that legal groups like the Pacific
Justice Institute, Alliance Defense Fund, Home School Legal Defense Association
and others will be successful in having the ruling overturned.
"We will not give up home schooling our child," she states. "If it means moving
from out of state, however we have to do that, we will do it because that is
what we feel that God has called us to do." Kathleen says she and her husband
have not had much chance to discuss the issue beyond that basic decision.
Even Kathleen's nine-year-old son understands what is happening to parental
rights in his home state. "He said to me, 'This is like that bad man,' which he
couldn't think of his name, 'in Germany. That's what it reminds me of,'" she
continues. "And I was surprised at his perception, that he actually considered
that a comparison.
Adolf Hitler outlawed home schooling in Germany in 1938. The practice is still
illegal in re-unified Germany to this day.
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