Home schooling in CA

[Ghoulish Delight]

It was not a homeschool cooperative, it was a family that was homeschooling and being accused of abuse. The person who gave the highlighted quote, you'll notice, is from the "Children's Law Center", a county agency that deals with, among other things, child abuse. So the case became a matter of accountability and oversight and therefore tangented into the area of homeschooling. Whether you agree with the eventual ruling or not, that IS the chief concern of the agency Ms. Heimov works for and I see nothing wrong with her statement.

As for the ruling itself, she's got a point. According to the letter of the law, it's hard to see how homeschooling can be allowed. They've skirted the issue thus far by basically saying that homeschools are de facto private schools, but that's a pretty flimsy interpretation. That law may need to change, but as it stands, I can't find much fault in the judge's reading of it.