Thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands, have spoke on the recent California ruling about homeschooling. I haven't blogged much about the ruling, party because life has been busy, but also because I haven't felt like I had anything profound to say about the ruling.
One of Judge Croskey justifications for saying the Longs could not homeschool was that since they were not cetified they obviously couldn't teach their children.
Alasandra makes a great point in Hundreds of public school teachers in California are teaching with emergency credentials:
"First,due to a shortage of credentialled teachers, hundreds of teachers in California are teaching with emergency credentials. That is, they have passed a test (the California Basic Educational Skills Test CBEST) but do not have a teaching credential.
So apparently you can teach in the California public schools without being properly credentialed, but you can't homeschool."
Recently I have thought about the line from Matthew: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" A beam is a large piece of wood used to hold up the roof of a structure. A dust mote is about as small as a particle can get and still be seen. Christ was telling people they should take care of their own big problems before worrying about little problems in other.
Most homeschooling critics seem to be worried about the very, very small group of homeschoolers who do a poor job of teaching their children, while ignoring the hundreds of thousands who graduate high school each year without knowing how to read or write.
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2 comments:
Ah, but he even said why he felt that way. Private school teachers (and I suppose public as well) are managed and supervised by others, who (as he says, I'm paraphrasing) have a good reason to want them to succeed and have well-taught kids.
Which implies that homeschool parents apparently don't.
He justifies it all by saying that it would be too expensive and difficult to monitor all of us individually. Or something like that.
The whole ruling makes me angry.
I am ocnfident the ruling won't stand. I am a bit worried that politicians will mess up homeschooling in California.
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