Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the court ruling against homeschooling, “Parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.” I didn’t see anything in the constitution about abortion, but that didn’t seem to be a hindrance.
I knew this was coming. It was inevitable as more and more people have chosen to homeschool their children to avoid the brainwashing “socializing” of their kids by the government’s secular worldview. After all, who has a better interest in your own kids than the government?
The government funded education system has less and less control on the indoctrination of your children so the only logical move for them to make was to make it illegal. Honestly, I was beginning to wonder what was taking them so long.
Read the article here.
1, March 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Even some public school teachers I know thought that this was wrong on so many levels. Hopefully, this ruling gets overturned, or the parents are, at the very least, able to put their kids in Christian schools, or at the very most, leave CA.
1, March 15, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I realize that this is a Christian blog, and not a political blog, yet one has to wonder which of the myriad state/federal abuses gives the founders the most cause to roll in their graves…by this point they must be in perpetual merry-go-round mode.
Welkommen to Amerika, mein Amerika!
As I recall it was no less than Hitler who had the avant garde notion that Der Schtaat should control the indoctrination, er, I mean, education of the nation’s children to ensure that they were being taught the “common values” of the broader culture and therefore mandated by law the government controlled indoctrination, er, I mean, education of the masses.
And oh my! What a success! Why, surely you remember the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens, right? Such an overachieving group of lads and lasses - hanks to Der Schtaat of course!
1, March 17, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Must have been finger trouble - I’ll try again!
Personally, I believe Justice Croskey got this one exactly right. It’s much better for kids to mix with the rest of the human race from the word go - we evolved down the milennia as social human animals by doing that, way before organised religion came along. It’s natural human behaviour.
And trust me, atheist parents like me do not eat their young, or yours. You have nothing to fear from us.
It’s self-evident (now those words sound familiar from somewhere, where was it …?!) that all formal teaching should by qualified (or credentialled, as it looks like you guys in the US say) teachers. Otherwise, who knows what they could be taught!
Freedom of religion is important - even atheists like me can see that. Live and let live. But kids’ freedom _from_ religion is vital too. There are cases I know of here in England where kids being homeschooled are filled with terrifying ideas about hell. There’s no evidence for the existence of hell, so why scare them? Can you imagine doing that to the defenceless mind of a child? Homeschooling is just too open to abuse like that. Allow me to raise a glass in Justice Croskey’s general direction.
And Coram Deo, it’s ‘Willkommen’; and ‘Staat’, not ‘Schtaat’.