Parents have the right to home school, state court says
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, August 8, 2008
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(08-08) 10:49 PDT LOS ANGELES – — A state appeals court reversed itself today and ruled that parents in California have the right to home school their children even if they lack a teaching credential.
The Second District Court of [...]
A friend and I were discussing homeschooling recently and she mentioned an editorial I wrote many years ago titled “On Jumping Through Hoops,” and said that although it’s still available on the HEM site, I should make it more easily available for new readers, especially as we were headed into the “not-back-to-school” end of summer [...]
I’ve waited two days to write this post, believing it’s best to err on the side of caution when the stakes are potentially very high. Having waited two days, and having considered all the harassing phone calls, all the blisteringly-written letters, all the provoking emails, all the threatened lawsuits… well… enough is enough.
Mimi Rothschild contacted [...]
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For as long as I can remember, Patrick Farenga has been a good friend and ally, not only to we at Home Education Magazine, but to homeschoolers and unschoolers everywhere. So it was with great dismay that I read the essay this morning at his website, PatFarenga.com. Pat wrote, in part: “It has come to [...]
Our January-February, 2008 issue will mark the beginning of our 25th year of publishing Home Education Magazine.
A quarter of a century!
A couple of years ago I started writing a history of how we started the magazine, and those posts can still be found in the blog archive, under the category History of Homeschooling. To make [...]
