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.
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