Court Ruling: California statutes permit homeschooling!
CHN would like to thank Jerry Salcido and his team of attorneys at Baker & McKenzie LLP for the outstanding job they performed in representing the members of California Homeschool Network. They worked for months with the attorneys from HSC and CHEA, to defend our right to continue to homeschool legally in California.
August 8 update from CHN’s attorney, Jerry Salcido: The Cailfornia Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three issued its ruling in the In re Rachel L. case.In Feburary 2008 this same court issued an opinion that held that California parents can homeschool their children only if they hold a valid teaching credential. The court vacated its February 2008 decision by agreeing to rehear the case. In addition to hearing from the parties on rehearing, the court also invited numerous friends-of-the-court, known as “amicus curiae” to provide legal argument. The court heard argument from the parties and the amicus curiae on June 2, 2008 for more than 2 hours.
Today’s court ruling held that (1) California statutes permit home schooling as a species of private school education; and (2) the statutory permission to home school may constitutionally be overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who has been declared a dependent.
Homeschooling, therefore, remains a legal educational option in California.
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Homeschoolers warned to stay vigilant, 9 August 2008, OneNewsNow, Tupelo, Mississippi
Couldn’t we have just one little champagne cork pop instead of continued gloom and doom? There was little possibility of the California situation sneaking up on anyone.