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Great story on Homeschooling from Bakersfield

Marylee Shrider: Stop telling home-schoolers to chill out

By MARYLEE SHRIDER, Californian columnist
e-mail: mshrdier@bakersfield.com | Friday, Mar 14 2008 5:46 PM

Last Updated: Friday, Mar 14 2008 5:43 PM

If I read one more op-ed telling California’s home school parents to calm down and chill out, I may throw up.

For the record, home school parents aren’t panicked. They’re furious. And they should be.

I generally don’t tackle the same topic two Saturdays in a row, but my inbox was on fire this week with moms and dads furious over a California Court of Appeal ruling that parents have no legal right to home school their kids.

As it turns out, California’s home schoolers have friends in high places.

Citing the “long and rich history of private home schooling in California,” Republican Assemblyman Joel Anderson on Tuesday introduced legislation “supporting the right of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children” and calling on the California Supreme Court to reverse the lower court's “misguided” ruling. Read more.

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