Organically Inclined

This was published last Friday, but I didn’t see it until this morning. This is good news for California Homeschoolers who were fighting a battle over whether or not homeschooling parents had to be certified teachers.

The appellate court concluded that “…California impliedly allows parents to home school as a private
school, but has provided no enforcement mechanism. As long as the local school
district verifies that a private school affidavit has been filed, there is no provision for
further oversight of a home school. It appears that the propriety of any parent’s home
schooling will arise only in dependency (or family law) proceedings, as in this case, or
in a prosecution for failing to comply with the compulsory education law.”

The whole decision is here.

If you have a half hour, take the time to read the whole thing - it’s very interesting.