Late breaking news: California court agrees to rehear homeschooling case:
"LOS ANGELES—A California appeals court is reconsidering its ruling requiring parents who home school their children to hold teaching credentials.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed Tuesday to schedule another hearing in the case of a Southern California couple it ordered to send their children to a conventional school. The children were educated at home by their mother, who is not a credentialed teacher.
The Feb. 28 ruling stemmed from a child abuse case. A court-appointed lawyer for two of the children wanted the youngsters to attend a public or private school where they could be monitored for signs of mistreatment.
Home schooling advocates feared the court's published opinion would force thousands of families to abandon the practice.
The court says it plans to solicit more briefs on whether non-credentialed parents have a constitutional right to teach their children at home and to rehear the case in June."
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2 comments:
I'm not so sure that this is a good thing. The court could have chosen to rehear the case and restrict itself to the issue of this particular family. Instead it is setting itself up to actually make a determination on the wider issue of homeschooling.
You raise a valid concern.
The article ends with:
"The court says it plans to solicit more briefs on whether non-credentialed parents have a constitutional right to teach their children at home and to rehear the case in June."
I am fairly confident that the court will find that parents can homeschool their children. It is legal in the other 49 states.
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