Public education has had it’s chance, it failed miserably and the monetarily cost has been huge, but the cost in terms of damage to our children has been much higher. We now have at least two generations of American children that have tragically inferior educations.

The only solution is to get government out of education all-together. The public school buildings need to be sold to the highest bidders and private intuitions need to take over once again. The Department of Education must be disbanded and Congress must pass legislation that forbids government from meddling in the affairs of the private educators. The governments involvement has caused a great disaster and a crisis in American education, it must stop NOW !

Look carefully at what the judge said. He doesn’t say you CAN’T home school, just says you need to be qualified. As far as I know, that’s been the rule in most districts for a long time. The judge ruled that you don’t have an inherent right to educate your kids regardless of your qualifications. If you did, there would be no point to compulsary education because people would have Jethro Bodine educating their kids.

crosspatch on March 6, 2008 at 6:36 PM

Look at the elitist standing up for the elitist judge. Yep, all citizens who don’t work for the government are a bunch of rednecked rubes with snaggle teeth.

Disgusting arrogance.

Schools do not educate; they indoctrinate. A child is taught what to think, not HOW to think, a child is taken from his home early in the morning (6:30, 7:00 a.m) and not returned until late afternoon (3:00, 4:00, later) they are kept in sterile environment where they have to ask permission to go to the bathroom, and are frequently denied permission!! there is no talking, no SOCIALIZING (a huge question homeschoolers get – ‘but what about socializing? School is far less conducive to socializing than homeschooling, where my kids can talk to anyone and everyone, not just their age bracket, their education level) The evenings are taken over by that insidious little thing known as Homework. Parents do play an important role in how children turn out, but how can they do their job when their children are forcibly removed, taught to not trust their instincts, taught to taught themselves, taught that there are no losers or winners, that accomplishments mean nothing, that no matter what you do, you are just a number, a cog in the system. It breaks the soul. And liberalism is explained. :o)

Update: LA Times misunderstood ruling?

No.

What was misuderstood was the LA Times not anticipating the backlash their biased reporting of this will have.

It makes the LA Times look stupid, makes the judge look foolish, and further justifies the view that the government is trying to dictate how parents raise and educate their children.

This is only one of many similar opinions held by the state at the inception of forced institutionalized “education”. It would seem that this mentality has not changed. God places children in families, to be raised by their parents! The state has no business trying to take His prerogative, and make it their own. Men are not God!

AZ_Redneck on March 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM

I am saluting you right now buddy ;)

We chose to home school because:

1) We believe it to be our responsibility to educate our kids, not the state.
2) The state holds fundamental beliefs different from ours.
3) The state does not hold the same values as our family.
4) Our kids will not be handed over to strangers.
5) Our kids will not be educated in a gun free zone.
6) Our kids will not be denied the right to free speech.

Thankfully, all my children have never seen the inside of a public school. My kids

- don’t care about the brand of clothes or shoes they wear.
- don’t care about celebrities.
- redo their work until they receive a B (85% or better).
- use the Bible as part of their curriculum.
- receive gun saftey training.
- actually ask to go to the library and read every book cover to cover.
- raise money (their own idea) to support a local pregnancy center.
- are excelling in all subjects
- love their teachers
- enjoy school

It’s time to take public money out of the schools and abolish the Dept of Education.

What the hell happened to this country? It’s like I moved here and everyone has devolved into goddamn cretins incapable of understanding their own country. WTF?

Before the establishment of the establishment people educated their children at home. Dad worked the field or mines, Mom nurtured the kids which included the original concept of home schooling where Mom knows best.

When Mom had to work when Daddy had to fight to keep the country free the community took over neutering the kids. When the battle was over, the status quo did not return, because those selected to temporarily educated our children did want to give up.

Again, now that homeschooling is showing public education was never a suitable substitute for the natural rule of nature, that mothers are the best to nurture their children to success. The substitute teachers felt empowered to be the only ones qualified to teach but could not face reality that their job was temporary, and mother nature had established the perfect model which should not be fiddled with-least there be serious consequences.

I submit that this is evidence that government-hired teachers in government-run schools are, as a class, not qualified to teach our children.

Oh yes, I missed two questions out of a hundred, and had to guess (right) at three more.

I think this case is about home schooling without being under a state certified home schooling organization. I know people very in the know about education here in California, so let me know if there is some question I can get an answer for.

spike on March 7, 2008 at 12:28 AM

The right of parents to direct the education of their children falls in with the other parental rights. These rights are fundamental and implied, and mostly granted by the due process clause of the 14th amendment.

You won’t see them explicitly granted in the constitution. That’s probably got something to do with the fact that public school didn’t exist when the constitution was written and most, if not all, of the founding fathers were homeschooled.

Public school system needs to be taken back from the unions. At least principals should be able to fire teachers. That way it would actually make some sense to ask a principal to deliver results.

They are my children. They do not belong to the state.

Beware of any politician using the phrase “our children”.

If you did, there would be no point to compulsary education because people would have Jethro Bodine educating their kids.

crosspatch on March 6, 2008 at 6:36 PM

Wow Uncle Jed. My wife has been home schooling our two children, who consistently perform above average on state required exams, by the way, for eleven years now. And you…

Did the Los Angeles Times misinterpret the court ruling?

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