Judge orders homeschoolers into government education
Court: Family's religious beliefs 'no evidence' of 1st Amendment violation
Let the California Exodus begin!
Make sure to check out the multiple links to other web-sites in the article. Lots of good information to help parents, particularly in California. To those of us outside California, we need to be preparing for this wave of communism to hit us too.
Keywords: California, exodus, home school, homeschoolers, Nazifornia, Sovietfornia
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Culture war, what culture? Is the Berkley town council still at war with the United States Marine Corp? How many million illegal aliens are in California now? I could go on and on.
Hopefully all those decent folks in California who might move will consider Florida. We are barely holding on for dear electoral life. Maybe conservatives in overwhelming liberal states need to consider moving to borderline states where their vote might count for good again i.e. the decent folks of California could move to Nevada, Oregon and Arizona. This would increase the Congressional Districts there and shrink California's. Then good folks in Illinois could move to Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin to tilt them. The good folks in Maryland could move to Virginia. Conservatives left in the Northeast could move to New Hampshire.
Brad Dacus, president of the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute, calls the scope of the decision "breathtaking."
"It not only attacks traditional home schooling, but also calls into question home schooling through charter schools and teaching children at home via independent study through public and private schools," he explains.
According to Dacus, the ruling goes against prior court decisions. "Case law in federal court and by the U.S. Supreme Court [has] already recognized that parents have a fundamental right over the education of their children," he points out. "And in fact, the lower-court judge in this decision ... actually ruled that these parents had a constitutional right to home school their children. But it was reversed by this three-judge panel in this appellate court."
For the time being, the decision affects four counties in the Los Angeles metro area. Sunland Christian School, says the Pacific Justice Institute, has been in full compliance with the requirements of California law for more than 20 years.
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.