The Christian Science Monitor Mar 7, 8:26 AM EST
Court: Credential Needed to Home School
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California parents without teaching
credentials cannot legally home school their children,
according to a recent state appellate court ruling.
The immediate impact of the ruling was not clear. Attorneys
for the state Department of Education were reviewing the
ruling, and home schooling organizations were lining up
against it.
"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school
their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28
opinion for the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
Noncompliance could lead to criminal complaints against the
parents, Croskey said.
An estimated 166,000 students in California are home schooled,
but it was not known how many of them are taught solely by an
uncredentialed parent.
To earn a five-year preliminary teaching credential in
California, a person must obtain a bachelor's degree and
complete multiple examinations.
Until now, California allowed home schooling if parents filed
paperwork to establish themselves as small, private schools;
hired a credentialed tutor; or enrolled their child in an
independent study program run by an established school while
teaching the child at home.
The ruling stems from a case involving a Los Angeles-area
couple whose eldest child re****ted "physical and emotional
mistreatment" by the father, court papers said.
The father, Phillip Long, vowed to take the case to the state
Supreme Court.
"I have sincerely held religious beliefs," he told the Los
Angeles Times. "Public schools conflict with that. I have to
go with what my conscience requires me."
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