Re: Update from HSLDA

After the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District in Los
Angeles ruled on February 28 that parents had to be credentialed
teachers to educate their own children....

That state beast ..... it really knows how to be a card at times .... and really knows how to come up with a clever turn of phrase .... it can be a real pill, eh? This is of course a loaded question, but what, pray tell, does one suspect, the state defines "credentialed" to be in this instance? I wonder, if home schooling parents have not been exposed to, for instance, the kind of In Service training sesssions that Charlotte Iserbyt speaks of, does this perhaps put them at risk for being insufficiently credentialed? I seem to recall that this California case stems from the parents - who had previously home schooled 7 other children of theirs, subsequently being deemed uncredentialed and therefore not qualified to school their present youngins. Just out of curiousity, it would be nice to see how those 7 people made out so far for their home-schooled troubles. Have they become (or are they at least well on their way to being) willing, productive, vibrant members of their community? Or, have they too become welfare dependents schooled and skilled in the ways of how to leach off the system in the same ways that the present credentialed empire of government education system is designed to crank out it's product?