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6 Responses to “Homeschooling unconstitutional in California?”

1. Emily
   March 7th, 2008 at 10.58 pm

   

   I admit, I don’t know much about homeschooling, but I definitely don’t agree with them trying to make it illegal. I know there are some children who benefit more from homeschooling than inside a classroom. One more thing they’re trying to control in this country. Sickens me.

2. Jamie
   March 8th, 2008 at 11.41 am

   

   Wow, this is absolutely ridiculous. I have a feeling that this will be challenged and the Supreme Court might end up deciding it. California is interfering with a fundamental right!

3. Rampant
   March 8th, 2008 at 1.19 pm

   

   I’m not surprised. Living in C.A. myself it is in fact thee state to leave behind. Home school began the very foundation of the educational system so to deem it unconstitutional is nonsense. All these politions uphold education yet when they get into office they just slash it to pieces.

4. Larry
   March 9th, 2008 at 11.01 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

5. Quick Rant at spoken for
   March 10th, 2008 at 12.24 am

   

   [...] was looking on digg.com a bit ago at some of the articles and comments regarding the recent decision by those arrogant judges in California and I just need to rant for a second before I head to [...]

6. Chanel
   March 10th, 2008 at 9.04 pm

   

   Wow. Just wow.

   I might not be an American citizen, but I was “homeschooled” (it was more correspondence than my mother teaching me, but same difference) for the greater part of my life – gr. 3 – 12… My parents used to threaten me *with* “regular school” when I misbehaved!

   I loved it. I might not have been in school, but I was always given a million and one opportunities to socialize – hanging out with my friends from school, extracurricular classes, sports, church, etc. Of course, I was also raised in the city, and I think that when Americans think “homeschooling”, they think “religious zealots who live in the middle of nowhere” – aka a type of hell for some. And that’s totally, totally not how it is. Usually, anyway.

   While I was homeschooled, I took classes in “regular highschool” – having a foot in both worlds so to speak, I suddenly realized how full of bullshit our public school system is. The curriculum is full of useless fluff designed to keep students up to their ears in work (so they wont have time to get into trouble, of course) and because of large class sizes and common disruption, students rarely learn the full curriculum anyway. That’s just to name a few.

   To me, homeschooling is about taking charge of your education, because after all, nobody cares more about what you learn and how you “turn out” in the end (with exception to your parents) than you. Putting your education and your early, impressionable years in a classroom of 30 kids and a teacher who probably isn’t paid enough to really care is ridiculous. There are always exceptions of course, but most students just can’t wait to get out of high school when they get the opportunity, or even before. (Love for learning? What’s that?)

   The fact that I was homeschooled opened my life up to so many opportunities I wouldn’t have been able to take if I’d been in school. I got to travel parts of the world, start my own business, and take up tons of things I’d always wanted to do. Even though I will always value traditional education (math, english, science, etc.), the things you learn from being properly educated by life are, dare I say it, far more valuable to you in the long run – and in most cases, a typical “regular” school student wouldn’t be able to experience most of that until he or she graduated. They just wouldn’t have the time.

   In short: homeschooling “unconstitutional” my ass. This is just another example of the government attempting to file us all into neat little boxes. (Don’t fit? Too bad. You don’t have a choice!) … But then again, going against the flow is rarely easy or readily accepted.