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I’m outraged this is even an issue! We on the East Coast are familiar with how these “things” in California trickle over and are abominations to family values. Did American Education not start in the home? Who were the first “teachers” of our great land? As a family of faith, my husband and I are called to be the primary educators of our children. That may not always mean that we are “homeschoolers” but it is OUR responsibility, primarily, to see to the educational needs of our children. I should not need the “approval” of any government in these decisions. The government officials, as well as I, will answer to The Creator for any and all choices we make for ourselves and for others.

Signs of the times.
If we take it sitting down , in front of the boob tube we deserve the tyranny.
this is history come full circle. Rise up America and show your stuff.
Get your country back!!!

California tried to kick the Marines out a few weeks ago. I guess “home schoolers” are easier to push around this week. Home school means continuity for many children.
The teacher’s union pretty much makes the PTA pointless. Ask one of them to go out of the way to teach a child and they will pull the union card and rant “I don’t get paid enough to pay attention to your child.” “No kid left behind” actually means, fail a kid enough times and they will catch up or drop out. In conclusion, most home school instructors have mastered the grade of which they are teaching. Most home schools actually have books and lesson plans. Many public schools are not safe. Crime and terrorism is on the rise on campus as abductions, murder, rape and sexual predators on staff are daily events. Need I even describe the Amish private school murders…

Home schoolers can and do succeed. There are famous people who have home schooled. People like Abraham Lincoln who grew up in a one room cabin and read the Bible by candle light. He became President of the United States and wrote laws to free slaves. Not bad for a home schooler who studied by candle light.
Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb. the battery, the picture camera, the radio ect. Again not bad for a home schooler
There are many more great home schoolers who have made enormous contributions to this country and the world!
As there may not be a Constitutional Right to home school children or at least the Constitution wording specifically stating homeschooling I believe that the Constitution gives us that right. The Declaration of Independence gives us the God-given right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. My own children are home schoolers who understand these rights throughly. For example in our home my now 13 year old as did my 22(who is a home school graduate and went on to study Art, Interior Design, Management, and is a Substitute Teacher) year old have the right to decide for themselves whether they will be home school or go to a public school or private school.
These are the lawful choices in our state and they have the right to choose.
In the public schools today there are violence and crimes that even 20 years ago were unheard of! My children never had to duck behind a table during lock down in a public school! My children have never had the fear of an armed young person asking them to choose “their life or God.” My children have never had the fear of being intimidated by gang members in school, or young people pushing drugs on them. My children have never had the experience of losing classmates to violence, drunk driving or drug overdoses.
Schools today are very dangerous even for youngsters. The school environment is violent and greedy. The No Child Left Behind program aims the monetary accountability squarely on the shoulders of children. This is exploitation of children! If children do not pass the standardized tests they themselves do not pass onto the next grade and the school loses money! This high stakes testing is unfair! It doesn’t matter if your child is a straight A student of flunking! If they don’t pass the standardized testing they don’t pass to the next grade!!!
My 13 year son believes that schools are dangerous and every night on the news there is a new report of children being killed in public schools and colleges.
So why aren’t public schools being shut down? Why aren’t colleges and universities being shut down because of shootings taking place in them?
My son says that home schooling is best for children because you get to do a lot of things besides following the schedules of a public school.Home schooling scheduling is more flexible because you get to work on your hobbies, go to the library, do phys ed,
art, math, science, history, and creative writing. My son recently got to go to the District Court to see his father become a US Citizen. Had he been in school he would have missed it because he would have been taking a standardized test!! I some how don’t think that a test would have taught him the lessons of being a US Citizen in the same way as actually being at the ceremony for swearing in new US citizens!!! It was a beautiful ceremony! His father even gave a speech about his experience of coming into this country! No test could have even come close to the experience we had
that day!! We also celebrated afterwards at a restaurant!
Being at home teaches children to make their own choices and not cave into peer pressure. My children choose things because they want to do something not because they want to be “cool” doing it!
Home schooling is for most people a choice they thought over and involved their own children in the choices being made! I am sorry that the 14 year old girl involved with running away from home didn’t have that choice. But then again do you shut down every public or private school whenever some student there runs away from home?

What’s next. Will the court system guide us on how we give birth to our children? C-sections for all and genetic testing of all new-borns…. Will the government name our kids for us? Child A, Child B, Child C….. How awkward and inhumane. Apparently the government supports logic over love. Hopefully rapture of the church before we are tortured by brain-washed governmental people.

Can you say Nazi Germany? There are so many factors indicating that we are going down that path….it’s very scary. We are not far from a police state, and in order for it to successfully take root, as Hitler so well found, is to force your child into the govt institutions so they can control what children are taught, therefore, what they think. Freedom to homeschool maintains free thinking, and we can’t have that if we are to be controlled!

To Laura….the court system already squeezes us into conformity on how we birth our children. Look at the illegalization of direct entry midwives in many states. Keeps our options very slim. This is a whole other subject……

I have had the privilege of homeschooling my four children to Christian faith, adulthood, college, marriage,careers, and their own parenthood. Each have been given unique gifts and the time to pursue their highest callings. I also now work as an accompanist and vocal coaching assistant in a public high school music department, run a piano teaching business (studio and in-home clients) and mentorship, as well as a Bible Study fellowship…Believe me when I say today’s parents need options!! Public education and social welfare programs cannot meet the needs of all children. Many intelligent, lost kids fall behind and give up…we must protect the few parental rights left, or this nation will see greater upheaval and corruption beyond our imaginations. Some of the stories we encounter in the public schools and business would shock and disturb the uninformed. This generation is in great danger; but not without potential and hope, if the parents will repent and take back their God-given responsibilities.

I have to bring up the point that Ivy League schools are giving preference to homeschooled students over public educated ones. Partly because of their high test scores and partly because of their study ethic and views on education.

Are we still living in the United States? I wonder. I wish these so called political tyrants would find another country to live in move out now. Our school system is no longer a safe place where children can go to be educated unless of course we want our children to be taught how to use & sell drugs, get into gangs & fight, learn how to use condoms, be tolerant to those who are NOT tolerant anyone’s beliefs but their own, and if you disobey the rules, well don’t worry, there will be no consequences for any actions because the teachers are to afraid to reprimand them. If the political tyrants want to force us to stop homeschooling our children them they need to step up to the plate, clean out the school system so it is a safe place for our children. Hire teachers who truly want to teach and know how, can speak English, and care about each individual child and their respective learning abilities & needs. Since this will NEVER happen in California, LEAVE THOSE OF US WHO HOMESCHOOL OUR CHILDREN ALONE! We homeschool because we can & want our children to learn in a safe loving environment, at a pace that is complimentary for their abilities and grow into responsible moral adults with the values that this country of ours was built upon! I am not by any means slamming those who are unable to homeschool. I have many close friends who cannot and their children are being raised to be responsible adults with the same morals & values, but I see the struggles they deal with daily. We need to d remember how this great nation of ours was built. Today we are still blessed to have great men & women putting their lives on the line daily so we can have the freedom to live here in America. Let’s honor them by standing together for our rights.

Shouldn’t parental rights be protected by Amendment 9 of the United States Constitution? Did the state get so much power through truancy statues? In California, students are considered truant if they have 3 unexcused absences within 180 days of the school year. State schools receive funding based on daily attendance and potentially prosecute students if they have 3 unexcused absences within the school year. Do truancy laws create a conflict of interest for the state? School should be a privilege not legal confinement. I find it odd that a teenager is legally able to choose an abortion, but cannot choose to leave school for a family vacation without being truant.

Here is something on which we can all agree. I did not move my daughter into homeschool because of religious reasons, nor do I teach religiously, but I support the right of every parent to raise and teach their children as they see fit. This is The United States - the land of the FREE! I have been afraid of this for a while now. The government has far too much power to intervene in family business. Let’s put left and right aside and stand up for our children. In the end this will hurt them most of all. And yes, Holly, I can see a day in the not-too-distant future when our children will be collected at age two and hauled away to some government facility to be programmed. I say NO! Would the authors of our Consitution stand for this? What would they say?

I am amazed by all the wonderful thoughts/comments on the subject!!! I believe the downfall of this country is when we decided to turn our backs on our creator and took prayer out of school!!! God will have the last say here on this earth and I am glad to say I will not be here to suffer through with the ones creating laws in direct conflict of the Word. I support the homeschoolers all over this country and gladly stand up for them. I decided to homeschool my special needs son this year because the public school was not equipped for his special needs and I was not going to see him slip through the cracks of the public school system. This year has been a big adjustment but a really nice one. My husband has decided we are going to homeschool our other two children next year!!! I am happy about this decision because it is in the best interest of the children!!! I am tired of other people deciding what my children are going to be taught many times in direct conflict to my religious beliefs!!! I have already received my curriculum for my two preschoolers and look forward to starting and finishing their education without the interference of the public schools.