Got this emailed to me… Any truth to it??
Got this emailed to me… Any truth to it???
CALIFORNIA HOME SCHOOLED COULD BE TRUANT
School officials in California are warning parents they cannot educate their children at home unless they obtain professional teaching credentials, according to The Washington Times.
Without the proper credentials, parents no longer can file required paperwork that would authorize them to home school their children, states a memo issued by the state Department of Education. As a result, those children not attending public schools would be considered “truant” by local school districts.
“In California, ‘home schooling’ where non-credentialed parents teach their own children exclusively at home, whether using correspondence courses or other types of courses, is not an authorized exemption from mandatory public school attendance,” says Deputy Superintendent Joanne Mendoza in a memo to all school employees.
Advocates of home-based education say the memo is another ploy to frighten home school parents into sending their children to public schools.
Part of it has to do with money, they say, as the state’s education department is dealing with a $23 billion deficit and school districts only get funding if a child attends a public school.
— Should the state be able to require professional teaching credentials for home schooling?
— Since home schooling has become more popular, do you think states will make it more difficult because of the loss of revenue?
Re: CA homeschool alert!
Homeschool Leagal Defense Association would need to be contacted with this information and could help to protect the rights of these home shoolers.
I am in Al and we homeschool but we are required to be under the umbrella of a church school here . Our particular group is required to be a member of HSLDA which comes to your rescue if social workers or schools try to interfere in your right to home school your child. I think states will try to fight more and more because there are so many people leaving public schools. They would rather fight for that money than to fix a broken system!!Their website is www.hslda.org. Phone #540-338-5600. Hope you will relay the info. Jan
Re: I'd contact these guys
Try getting ahold of Brad Dacus at
http://www.pacificjustice.org/
I would think they can help clear this up.
Andy
Considering they don’t require private school teachers to be credentialed….
I think this is so, you have to either hook up with a private school or become one.