Home schooling in CA

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I think the government has a legitimate interest in ensuring that people who are homeschooling have their sh*t together. I'm just not sure of the best way to accomplish that without trampling rights.

I don't know that I see a huge rights question here. If there is one, it's no different than the one that comes with the requirement of a basic education or with child labor laws. If some black single mom said that she needed to take her twelve year old daughter out of school to take care of her younger siblings so that she could work, we/the government would say no. If a coal mining family in Indiana said that it needed to take their twelve year old son out of school to work in the mines to make ends meet, we/the government would say no. In both situations, the government would be acting to ensure that the kid is not deprived of an education. We/the government have the same duty with respect to home schooling.