alt.education

Jeff Strickland wrote:

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> "Josh Rosenbluth" wrote in message
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>> Jeff Strickland wrote:
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>>> Well, when I was a kid, my parents spanked me when they felt I needed
>>> it. Somebody somewhere at sometime challenged a parent's right ot
>>> spank, the court ruled that spanking was intolerable and the
>>> legislature created a law to codeify the ruling.
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>>
>> "Somebody somewhere"? That's another way of saying you don't know
>> what you are talking about.
>>
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> Spank your kid in a public place and see what happens.

That's a nice non-sequitir.

>>>>> In my example of the homeschool and CPS, the courts clearly jumped
>>>>> into an area of state law that is covered and works -- schooling --
>>>>> and forced a family to send kids to school, and the court did it in
>>>>> such a manner that all home schools in the state may be shut down.
>>>>> The court is doing this, not the legislators.
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>>>> In this case the legislature passed statutes which required
>>>> schooling at a public school, private school, or tutored elsewhere
>>>> (including the home) by a state-licensed teacher.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is not true. A home schooled child (as of today) can be taught
>>> by a parent or legal guardian that registers with the state that they
>>> are a home school, and they use a cirriculum administered by the
>>> proper authority (where the gamit of authority is too broad to
>>> specify here, and makes no difference). It is the court that is
>>> dictating the credentials that a home school must have.
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>>
>> No, you are wrong. From the case
>> (http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B192878.PDF):
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>> "... enrollment and attendance in a public full-time day school is
>> required by *California law* for minor children unless (1) the child
>> is enrolled in a private full-time day school and actually attends
>> that private school, (2) the child is tutored by a person holding a
>> valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught, or (3) one
>> of the other few statutory exemptions to compulsory public school
>> attendance (Ed. Code, § 48220 et seq.) applies to the child."
>>
>> The legislature made the rules.
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> California law provides for home schooling. Period. Just because you
> have not found the code does not mean home school is not allowed.

Citation?

Josh Rosenbluth