Ruling is severe blow to parents' rights

Well said Elizabeth Parsons well said.....

This is another instance of people who think the government knows what is best for the individual. This is that start of the slippery slope of socialistic thinking where the government should control not only the individual citizens money, but also what individuals are entitled too as well. They call it the "left coast" for a reason.

I don't agree taking it away, but I don't personally believe in home schooling, or agree with it.

another instance of teachers restricting competition imo.

How can we indoctrinate the children to believe crazy things like man-made global warming if we can't force them into the school system?

Home schooling is so good it is upsetting everyone. Everything that is good upsets the establishment like NAET for health care, EFT for emotional problems, or market timing for investments. Most things that government gets involved in is because it works too good and is a threat to government being the answer to all things. It is called government in-security. Home schooling will win and will be desired by all.

Home schooling is child abuse. End of story.

You are right.... Giving your children an education where the teacher gives the student their undevided attention is child abuse. Makes sense.

If it is child abuse let's pray for more of it. They are running circles around the other kids at college and are more mature in every respect. They also keeps winning the spelling competitions.

I think home schooling is like the "Cuban paradox" for health care-it demonstrates you don't need to spend a lot of money or have a large staff to educate our youth. I think home schooled children fair better in standardized testing also. A large problem with our society is the mindset that an education is received in institution intervals and with degrees of accomplishment rather than something you continue your whole life independent of some recognition or title. I have learned more the last twenty years than the previous twenty years and during the period of earning my degrees. Once the desire to learn is instilled in a child your job is done to some degree. You can guide and influence their education but the desire to learn drives them for the rest of their lives. What drives a horse to water and makes him drink is "desire". We tend to drive them to water without thirst.

At least if you school the kids at home you don't have to worry as much about shooters such as Harris and Klebold walking in and blasting them away.

"Home schooling is child abuse"? Republicant, would you please be so kind as to expand upon that statement? It rather sounds as if you are being facetious. I know many home-schooled children and they are not abused in any way, and in fact are ahead of most of their public-schooled peers. Neither are their families cult members.

I know someone who home schools her children. Would like to know the reason--she did not want to get up and take them to school so they decided to home school. SO each year they purchase the tapes for the kids to watch. That is home schooling--at least what I know about it.

Somehow, judges have either forgoten or just don't care that they work for THE PEOPLE, not the other way around. Our government was crafted that way, government of, for and by the people. Kooks who get elected take their authority, which is designated again BY THE PEOPLE, to extremes. How did education start in our country? By home schooling, then one rooms schools run by sensible neighbors - I can still remember getting smacked with a ruler by my first grade teacher for some simple thing like sprinkling salt in someone's food at lunch. After that I was also in trouble at home for the same offense - talk about double jeopardy! Just a few years ago, a young man whose family had to live in their car for a time was homeschooled by his mother - he made a perfect score on the SAT. Rightly done, home schooling is a fantastic alternative to our current government schools. Augusta had a cooperative which provided social and athletic outlets to the home schooled - presumably it is still in effect. A wonderful coach led the high school baseball team with great success in baseball circles for that age - unfortunately he suffered illness and I'm not sure if he's been able to resume.

As a society, we must protect our children first and foremost. Unfortunately all it takes is a couple of bad parents to ruin the concept for truly concerned parents who want the best for their kids. I personally know of two mothers in Columbia County who "home-schooled" their children and did a terrible job of it...it was one of the most selfish & neglectful things I had seen done to children- denying a child an education. There needs to be some sort of oversight, testing and regulation by local government on home schooling.

Republicant should change names, republicantthink comes to mind. Mindless...justmindless!

How else can thay be sure that the majority of the population gets a substandard education. Like Pink Floyds "The Wall" leading everyone to the meat grinder. We will tell you what to think and what you can learn. We will manipulate history to be taught the way we want it taught and if you don't learn it our way we will make you a failure.

the underground history of american education and mandatory schooling. http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Well aftbrn we are indoctrinated into a way of thinking by education, home, church, etc., but experience trumps that so you have someone like Madeline Murray O'Hare or Ignatius of loyola break out from their upbringing.

Republicant, then this country spent a long time abusing a huge majority of its children. And yet, those children ended up building quite a successful and well-adjusted nation and citizenry...odd. I don't home school my children, but neither do I send them to the cesspool of public education. I see plenty of happy, well-adjusted, socially adept, well EDUCATED, polite, home-schooled children...not sure what all the shouting is about...

You guys notice that the people that have a vested interest in big government and indoctrinating our youth here are the opponents to home-schooling? Hey Republicant and Angie, I'll put any home-schooled kid up against a kid schooled at Glenn Hills or Laney any day of the week.

We hear about the homeschooling success stories all the time. These are the cases that are publicized. There are many parents that are not qualified to homeschool their children There must be some type of oversight.

When certain basic standards of education are adheared to home schooling isn't necessarily bad. Throughout the 19th century and early 20th many if not most rural kids were 'home-schooled' with the Bible as their main textbook. It didn't necessarily make them bad adults, but it did not prepare them for life off of the farm. I disagree with some who view government as always the enemy. Our government is the public trust. It serves and protects the people. Every time you hug a marine, you are hugging the government. Education was placed in the public trust to protect the public from special interests who would narrow the scope of education for the sole purpose of indoctrinating innocent children either into a religious cult or corporate class structure. Public education may not be perfect but it is the primary way children are exposed to reality and the truth and that frees them to think for themselves, make wise choices, and survive as adults. The guiding principle is 'all men are created equal.' Education and a number of other functions belong in the public trust, and it has nothing to do with socialism or the evil of 'big government.

There is oversight, cutty. Do a little research before you spew talking points. Home-schooled kids have to adhere to the same standards as the government indoctrinated kids.

cutty...why must there be some type of "oversight"? The more "oversight" you permit (or mandate), the more control you turn over to government. Why? Ok, so some parents--according to your standards--are not competent to educate their children. So what? What skin is it off your nose? I might think that many people are not qualified to HAVE children...doesn't mean I get to exercise "oversight," and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean that we should just ask the pee-puhl to vote and decide what those standards are, for which we will be providing "oversight." The more we hear from ignorant people that it's "not the kids' fault" and that the state needs to give itself new powers to determine things that parents ought to decide, the closer we move to the Brave New World that only a few insane ranters in this forum would ever truly want. Think more carefully before you turn things over to gov't, please. We ALL suffer when 50% or more of you gather together, shouting "Four legs good! Two legs bad!" sigh.

I just feel that the way our public school systems are designed does not inspire creativity. They are designed to turn out a production line of Ford Escorts. All students held to the same measure with very little ability to persue personal interests. I for one was a product of public schools who had a very difficult time maintaining my attention to the prescripted curriculum. I found myself in the libraries more often indulging in research to expand my interests. Time and time again being steared back to the "classroom" until I lost interest in school. This is why by the time a child is moving into high school, they need to expand the ability of the individual for persuit of his or her own interest. So many teachers out there are like zombies just trying to get through the day. At least in home schooling if you have a parent like that it only affects their children, not the 30 or more that will suffer for it in public schools. As a mid level manager I see so many employees that come from a public school upbringing that will follow like rats led to a cliff, being led by the state so long that they can no longer think for themselves.

I don't agree with home schooling personally but if your child excels with schooling that way then go for it. In my own experiance home schooling shelters a child from the real world and then they don't interact with others very well when they have that interaction. This is my take on it. My mom wanted me to put my son in private school and I told her without a doubt NO because bad things can happen no matter what kind of school the child goes to.

I'm not an educator, but I am in a position where I provide resources for parents looking to homeschool there kids. 70-80% percent of these people that come in to get resources can't even spell homeschooling. I also meet a lot of great kids that have been homeschooled and they are a notch above the average kid, but everyone is not capable of homeschooling there kid. Just as everyone is not capable of raising a kid. I realize the kids are tested--Signal!

What seems to escape most people here is the fact that it doesn't matter what any of you think. We are not a country run by the latest Gallop-poll. We are a Constitutional Republic. The Constitution is the law of the land. The government has "absolutely no authority" to tell you that you can't school your own children.

Elisabeth:

The responsibility for this problem is yours. The Founders took personal responsibility and so should you. If you abide by these unjust rulings, then you have only yourself to blame. Nothing ever gets done if we all wait for someone else to do it.

Angie, why don't you agree with home schooling? Maybe 'cause yu ain't smart enough to do it? Of course, your leftist ilk dobelieve the gov'mint is the know all cure all. It is a FACT that gov'mint schools are a gross failure in this country. Richmond County is a prime example. As for the case being ruled on in CA, what do you expect from the left coast courts and 9th Circus Court of Appeals which is the most over turned court in the land? However, I do have to agree with the writer's letter and glad to hear from some one from CA with a brain.