"A recent court ruling was made public essentially indicating that home schooling is illegal in California. Please assure your concerned families that this ruling does not apply to GVCS. GVCS students are enrolled in a state-approved public school, students whose education is regularly and consistently overseen by a California credentialed teacher. GVCS has a required standard of education, an attendance requirement based on work completion and evidence of adequate and appropriate progress, and specific subject requirements. GVCS complies with the independent study law in this state, a legal and viable method of delivery of education. There is no cause for concern."
So... although this does not "seem" to affect us I feel terrible and very much in unison with the outraged parents of our home school community who work independently.
I know that this ruling was propelled by a case that looked to protect children from their abusive parents in a home school setting. Yet I cannot help to feel angry and invaded when I think of all the loving and law abiding families that are providing their children with a highly efficient, loving, individualized and superior educational experience on a daily basis. This is something that many schools cannot come close to doing, specially for a group of twenty (or thirty) children clustered in a classroom all day.
This is how I feel about this issue.
It seems to me that what is really needed is one on one counseling, guidance, support and encouragement to developing human beings who are always growing, from birth to death. I wonder if the parents involved in this case ever got any of it. I wonder if THEY ever found it in their (probably traditional compulsory) educational experience?
ed·u·ca·tion 
1.the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
