tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9968516.post8093066643482780546..comments2024-03-28T15:26:50.512-05:00Comments on Renaissance: Sign on the dotted lineRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17983592950942904914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9968516.post-79556621119693706642008-03-07T15:06:00.000-05:002008-03-07T15:06:00.000-05:00Thanks for putting up all this info - it saved me ...Thanks for putting up all this info - it saved me some work! HA! I've linked over to you from my blog so that my readers can find out more about this. I, too, have signed the petition as you made it so readily available - thanks! My husband will sign it later. The Lord is in control and for that I am grateful!Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03654318951012339791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9968516.post-44437372348328024422008-03-07T12:42:00.000-05:002008-03-07T12:42:00.000-05:00We have signed the petition at the HSLDA website. ...We have signed the petition at the HSLDA website. May the Lord see fit to prevent this from going any further!<BR/><BR/>Also, I put up a post a day or so ago with some details about this pregnancy. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9968516.post-14000192341716153082008-03-07T12:12:00.000-05:002008-03-07T12:12:00.000-05:00I just recently found your blog, and have been "lu...I just recently found your blog, and have been "lurking" for a while...I have really enjoyed it!<BR/><BR/>I live in California, and although we are not yet affected by this decision (our daughter is not quite 3), we have been planning on homeschooling, and are seriously considering, and researching our options...<BR/><BR/>I would have to agree with Abigail (above), in that, "it appears that CA law does not YET require parents to have teaching certification; however, the other legal avenues to homeschooling in CA could effectively be blocked in the future through the example of "prior precedent" if this family's appeal to the Supreme Court is not successful." <BR/><BR/>We are praying that this decision will not be upheld!! Thanks for posting this!! (I posted something similar on my blog this morning!)<BR/><BR/>By His Grace,<BR/>VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9968516.post-55292747204674558132008-03-07T09:18:00.000-05:002008-03-07T09:18:00.000-05:00I recently became aware of this due to this articl...I recently became aware of this due to <A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57679" REL="nofollow">this article</A> forwarded by my cousin. According to the article and the articles you link to, it appears that CA law does not YET require parents to have teaching certification; however, the other legal avenues to homeschooling in CA could effectively be blocked in the future through the example of "prior precedent" if this family's appeal to the Supreme Court is not successful. <BR/><BR/>According to CA law, homeschooling parents have the following options: they have teaching certification for the grades in which they educate their children, they are associated with a private school's satellite program (which this family WAS!), they instruct them at home using public school curriculum and are subject to all the attendant public school regulations, or they utilize a certified private tutor. <BR/><BR/>I'm especially incensed because this family WAS abiding by CA law, and those involved in the court decision circumvented their own state's law in order to reach a decision. I agree completely with you that this is an issue that could reverberate through all states and have effects in areas other than homeschooling, as well!<BR/><BR/>When a state denies the rights that it has previously given, it sets the stage for other rights to be similarly overturned, not simply in that particular state, but in others, as well. The United States are not perfectly united, but they do certainly affect one another, and what happens on the West Coast could reach the East Coast soon enough. <BR/><BR/>Not to be an alarmist, because I'm certainly not one, but I do think this decision will have ramifications, whether good or ill, for families across the nation. When the government oversteps its boundries and enters into the area of private liberties, there is heck to pay, and families like this one are the ones to pay it.Abigailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01030527178801056471noreply@blogger.com