Slowly but surely they are taking our rights away!

[olde_fashioned]

What's next?

This is absolutely apalling. Do you want the government telling you how to raise your child? California's liberal courts have just ruled that "parents possess no constitutional right to homeschool their children." This is disgusting, maddening, but it is also scary. Our God-given and supposedly inalienable rights are being chipped away at, little by little.

The scope of this decision by the appellate court is breathtaking. It not only attacks traditional home schooling, but it also calls into question home schooling through charter schools and teaching children at home via independant study through public and private schools," stated Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. "If not reversed, the parents of more than 166,000 students currently receiving an education at home will be subject to criminal sanctions," he continued.

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The wonderful HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) is doing everything they can to change this ruling, and to get it unpublished, which would mean it cannot be used as a law by other courts.

They are also getting up a petition, and we need all the signatures we can get! Please take a few minutes and sign it HERE.

Comments

[jordan-lynn.livejournal.com]

If you are homeschooled in my state (Alabama) you don't have to take a graduation exam like people in public schools do. Some private schools don't have a graduation exam either. But to get into college you must take an ACT or SAT. The SAT is free as far as I know, but it is not accepted for some colleges. The ACT costs $25 to take each time, and it is supposedly a harder test. All colleges accept the ACT. If you're homeschooled usually you have to the take the ACT in order to be accepted to a college, because a lot of homeschooled are not acredited. The homeschool I graduated from was not acredited, and I might not have been accepted to my college if I'd had an SAT score on my transcript. I had to have an ACT score.

I think that without proper regulations the children would have a rough time taking the ACT. I was not properly prepared, and I studied for three months prior to the exam and still did poorly, whereas a friend of mine showed up hungover to exam had not not studied at all and made a higher grade than I did. He went to a public school.