Heated feedback on the California’s No Teaching Certificate No Homeschool mandate

TELL ME MORE® website patrons chime in on California’s controversial ruling. 71% of TELL ME MORE’s website patrons were against this ruling. Comments submitted reflected the feelings of degreed professional, homeschool parents, as well as educational and corporate professionals.

At issue is a ruling by a state appellate court that California parents who don’t have a teaching credential cannot homeschool their kids. Those that chose to continue or to defy the law can be subject to criminal action! In an article from the L.A. Tims on this matter Justice H. Walter Croskey of the 2nd District Court of Appeals is quoted as saying, “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.”

As of March 25th the ruling was vacated and a rehearing is being set. The California Homeschool Network is actively petitioning along with credentialed teachers in support of Homeschooling rights.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics roughly 166,000 California kids are home schooled. Homeschooling in California is contingent a few key conditions such as parents hiring a credentialed tutor, enrolling their kids in an independent study program through a bricks-and-mortar school, or if declaring themselves to be their own private school.