Let's Outlaw Homeschooling
Published on June 5, 2008 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Current Events

Is this a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?  Is this just another public school fiasco?  They wonder why parents want to homeschool?  Good grief. 

The latest news out of California is that the Teacher's Association filed a brief against homeschooling families.  They argued to the court that parents should have no right over the education of their children.  They are trying to force all the children back into the public school system. 

One pro-family attorney was outraged and said: 

"In their brief, the teachers' union said that to allow parents to be able to home school without being credentialed teachers could result in 'educational anarchy." 

Of course I was glad to see he came back saying if there's any anarchy it's in the public schools.  The home schooled children are doing better academically than their public school counterparts.  Everyone knows this.   Why don't they just come out and admit these homeschooling families are making them look bad? 

What do they think?  They are smarter than the parents?  Do they think they have the children's best interest in mind and therefore have a right to over rule parental rights? 

Here's where it seems confusing.  Both the state superintendent of pubic schools and the Department of Education are supporting the legality of homeschooling.  Good. 

The Govenor and the Attorney General both also filed briefs in support the homeschooling as well saying that the practice "has a long and positive history in California and across the nation."  That's right. 

Well no kidding.  These kids have proven themselves in every which way and are no longer to be looked down upon.  So what's up with the Teacher's Association?  Don't they have enough kids to teach? 

So now the California Court of Appeals will decide the issue after hearing the arguments.  What issue? 

I'm seeing more and more voters' rights being taken away.  Where are the parent's rights here?  This shouldn't even be an issue. 

In CO we already have seen where the legislators  have come up with a new law (on transgenders) not only circumventing the will of the people but outright denying their right to vote on this issue by prohibiting any backlash against their little private decision. 

Ya, there'll be anarchy all right.  Keep handing these laws down and see what happens. 


Comments
on Jun 05, 2008

I was impressed with all of the homeschooled kids in the National Spelling Bee. 

on Jun 06, 2008
2 words - Job Protection.

Competant people do not need it. They can get jobs and keep them because they contribute to the system. Incompetants need it because they do not. The EA is just that - an incompetant teacher retention organization. Nothing more.
on Jun 06, 2008
LOL would have ever thought we would have our own little dictatorship in our own backyard, except this one has a whole lot of Chiefs and hardly any Indians.
on Jun 06, 2008

2 words - Job Protection.

I was thinking the same.  I mean why else would they care?  The kids are thriving for the most part being schooled at home.  Less hassel and more education at home than can be found in the public schools.  Let's face it, the public schools have been tested and found wanting. 

I was impressed with all of the homeschooled kids in the National Spelling Bee

me too as well as the Geography Bees and other contests.  It seems as tho for the most part the homeschoolers are scoffing up many of the awards the last few years.