Based on a juvenile court judge’s decision to terminate jurisdication over the two youngest children in the In re Rachel L. case, the family’s appellate attorneys will petition the court of appeal to dismiss its pending petition.

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A little over a week ago, a California Appellate Court issued a disturbing order that could have chilling and far-reaching effects for homeschoolers across the country. If you are unaware of this court ruling, please take the time to read the first two posts in this series.

Update:

1. Yesterday, Friday, March 7, Focus on the Family pre-empted their scheduled broadcast to devote the program to the CA homeschool court ruling. With a panel of four, they discussed what the court order was, what it means to homeschoolers in California and across the nation. We all need to pay attention to what is going on! As Dr. Dobson said on the broadcast,

“What has occurred in California, as in the past, has a way of seeping its way into the fabric of the nation.”

I couldn’t agree more – the outcome of this ruling can have a tremendous impact on homeschoolers’ freedoms across the nation. If this ruling stands, homeschooling parents could be found guilty of a criminal offense! Read the rest of this entry »

If you haven’t had a chance to read the World Net Daily article noted in yesterday’s post, Judge orders homeschoolers into government education, it’s critical that you do so now. Also, one of our readers, Crimson Mom, has written an excellent & very informative post on her blog regarding this court ruling that has potentially far-reaching effects for homeschoolers’ freedoms everywhere. May I strongly encourage you to read her post as well: CA Judges: Parents Have No Constitutional Right to Homeschool.

As noted in yesterday’s post, Randy Thomasson, of Campaign for Children and Families, commented that the government school system sometimes lies to parents about homeschool law and sited an incident where a parent was told three specific lies. Ending my post yesterday, I said I would share regarding my experience when we pulled our granddaughter out of public school to home educate her.

In all fairness, I have to say that I don’t think that all public school officials intentionally lie about the law, I think that sometimes, perhaps many times, they just don’t understand the law. In our state, PA, the homeschool law is very ambiguous and has many interpretations. Thankfully, before bringing our granddaughter home, I had done a fair amount of research and believed I had a good grasp of the PA homeschool law.

Appropriate papers in hand, knees knocking, Read the rest of this entry »