Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state

[like2opr8]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/07/MNJDVF0F1.DTL

It's only a matter of time before this spreads.

[lisaann]

HSLDA petition:

https://www2.hslda.org/Registrations/DepublishingCaliforniaCourtDecision/

Pass this on to as many people as you can. :thumb

[HSmomto4]

Signed!

[wife]

Signed!

me too

[Mopsie]

I have signed too!

[CircleSlide]

This kind of stuff just makes me mad!

[trn2him]

so what the state wants is to over crowd the already over crowded, under staffed schools even more.
This is just silly.

[Jesuslover_2002]

I signed!

[like2opr8]

Why are Amish schools different?
School for Old Order Amish and Mennonites is only a part of the learning necessary for preparation for the adult world. Children have formal schooling in one-room schools to 8th grade and then have a structured learning program supervised by their parents. Classes in the one-room Amish schools are conducted in English, and the children learn English when they go to school. The teachers are Amish and they have no more than an eighth grade education themselves. When the landmark United States Supreme Court decision of 1972 gave exemption for Amish and related groups from state compulsory attendance laws beyond the eighth grade, Chief Justice Burger wrote: “It is neither fair nor correct to suggest that the Amish are opposed to education beyond the eighth grade level. What this record shows is that they are opposed to conventional formal education of the type provided by a certified high school because it comes at the child's crucial adolescent period of religious development.”
LINK: http://www.holycrosslivonia.org/amish/amishfaq.htm#schl

I am going to go live with the Amish. We as homeschoolers are opposed to the "conventional formal education" provided so why can they not leave us alone? Nevermind, I can answer my own question--------the one world government, assimilation, indoctrination, no individuality, etc...

[Sealed]

Dh and I signed.