California Homeschooling Reversed: Parents have right to teach children

WorldNetDaily

An appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling “as a species of private school but that statutory permission for parents to teach their own children could be “overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who has been declared dependent.”

The long-awaited case resolves many of the questions that had developed in homeschooling circles across the nation when the same court earlier found that parents had no such rights – statutorily or constitutionally – in California.The ruling released this morning said the dispute came out of juvenile court proceedings in which court-appointed lawyers for two children demanded “an order that they be sent to private or public school, rather than educated at home by their mother.”

The dependency court did not agree, “primarily based on its view that parents have an absolute constitutional right to homeschool their children,” the appeals court said. The lawyers then advanced their case to the appeals level, which earlier granted the order… Click here to read entire story