"California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28.
"Parents can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply,' Croskey said. "A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote
Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said the ruling would effectively ban homeschooling in the state. "California is now on the path to being the only state to deny the vast majority of homeschooling parents their fundamental right to teach their own children at home," he said in a statement.
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Where else is homeschooling banned?
In 1919 Lenin made State education compulsory in the Soviet Union.
In 1938 Adolf Hitler prohibited homeschooling in Nazi Germany.
In 1959 Mao Tse-tung did likewise in Red China
