If it hasn’t been a national story, a Los Angeles area judge recently ruled against a homeschooling family and took away their parental rights to homeschool.  In doing so, he made the sweeping judgment that parents DO NOT have the right to homeschool their kids.  If the ruling stands, that could criminalize all of us who homeschool without a teaching credential in California.

Although it’s a shocking ruling that panicked many of us at first, I’m at peace knowing that this is all in the Lord’s hands.  Unfortunately for the family who was prosecuted, they did not have HSLDA lawyers but had to rely on court appointed defense attorneys.  But, with the huge public outcry and the current action of people like the HSLDA team and James Dobson, I seriously doubt that homeschooling will be made illegal.  A friend told me today that Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken out against the ruling as well, but I haven’t read that anywhere yet.

I do fear, however, that our days of relatively minimal government involvement in California homeschooling are threatened.  We may soon be forced to jump through those regulation hoops that some other states have had to deal with such as forced testing and other assorted intrusions by “professionals.”  The freedom we’ve enjoyed to actually educate our children on an individualized basis may be chipped away a little.  For a mom whose kids never quite fit into the government learning style model, this is NOT good news.

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