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HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) is doing everything they can to change this ruling, and to get it unpublished, which would mean it cannot be used as a law by other courts.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

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Is this the same family the ruling was brought against?

It may be that we are "over-reacting" but I would much rather jump to conclusions and stop this kind of behaviour in it's tracks, rather than be complaisant only to regret it later.

(Yes, it makes sense, and thank you!)

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Yes. So the family is the one who will be stopped. But the case has brought up homeschooling and such, so it will probably start getting more attention.

Right. I agree. But it's important not to overreact so much that in your haste you make it worse. (Not saying you are! Just saying from personal experience.)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Okay.

Right, oh, I know. ;-D

btw -- who is that in your icon?

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

That's Kate Austen. She's in LOST. It's a Jane Austen reference. ^-^ (LOST references just about everything under the sun, which is partly why it's so cool.)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

So Kate's last name in Lost is Austen? Neat!!

The references might be due to the fact that it's JJ Abrams. I know he stole a ton of material for Alias. If you are at all familiar with the general storyline, and ever watch a Korean movie called Shiri, it's soooo blatantly obvious where he got all his ideas. He ripped the "big red Rambaldi ball" straight out of that movie, which was made a few years before Alias. [/meaningless factoid]

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Alias. But I know in LOST he isn't stealing ideas (hate it when they do that) as much as he incorporates books/quotes/history into the story to add depth. :)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Oh, well that's good. I love things that are very "literary" in that sense.

In Alias they always chased artifacts/relics related to some Umpteenth Century inventor they named Rambaldi -- IMVHO he was supposed to be Da Vinci. ;-)