Hi Mary.

This is an absolute travesty.   So many of my Church families home school their children.  While a few of them have PA teaching certificates, there are a number of others who don't.  These kids are smart, well behaved and socially very well liked.  They are tested by the schools every year and come out on top.  Every one of thier SAT scores have been ABOVE the national average!!  One of these children has just been accepted to Oxford - she is one of only 12 students in the world to be accepted into the language program she will be attending.  She was home schooled from K through 12th grade before heading off to College.

I feel so badly about those 160,000 California kids and their families.  You are right, Mary.  As long as the children are performing at or above the State norm, how can the schools feel so threatened. 

I have come to admire and respect the parents who have made such a huge commitment to their children and their educations as to remain home with them and see that they receive an education that is to their liking and still abide by the requirements of the schools.  That depth of commitment in my eyes is above reproach. (umphhhhh - angry)  I truly do not understand how California can justify what they are doing, as in my eyes it is completely taking the rights of the parents away when it comes to making decisions for their children and their education. 

Rebecca, I too thank you for sharing.  I will pray for you, that all will be good for you today and every day in the future. 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Mary.  I will be sharing it with the home school families that I know.

Blessings,

Judy

Mary,

Thanks for taking a look.

My interest was for different reasons as I am always interested in what brings folk to where they are and what makes them think the way they do.

The uk does not have such a tradition of homeschooling in the last 100 years as the UK does but due to the overall fall in moral and standards and the rise of violence more and more people are moving in that direction.

I think that I am right in saying that a national curriculum still has to be followed here but with other freedoms added.

Yes resist direct influence by government for as long as you can but please continue to ensure that homeschooling does not become the excuse for those who are too ignorant to value education.

Roger

Hello all,

First Mary please do not say I'm whinning about my childhood if you haven't read my book or even checked my site out to read about the person I am. I am a very happy person with a big heart for help elderly people and children. I have volunteered 35 years of my life to it and taken in many. 

Look at the story of Nevada in this forum. No one knows where most of these children are? How many sad stories are yet to come? Do we even know if these children are safe and getting their rights to an education at all. Many of the problems come from Parents screaming we have our rights. How about the rights that the children? They have a right to an education that will allow growth, not only physically, but also mentally. Which is the points of my book" The Torments of the Modest, Secluded Farm Life". ISBN:1-58721-806-2. I for one don't feel sixteen year olds who drop out of school at age 16 because they feel school was nothing but a waste of time can give his children he entend to homeschool thier rights to a proper education. Think about it.

The statement said( if the child is learning above the state norm why is the state threatned) some were found to be beaten to learn to be the winner of the bee's and maybe that shed a light to why they are no longer allowed to take part.

I was shocked that someone who is a good homeschooler to even think, let alone state 160,00 kids and parents to riod. Violence will get you nowheres.

Thank you,

Doris