California home-schooling threat
p2pnet news Kids & Kartels | Freedom:- Every year Corporate America, with the music and movie industries to the fore, offers parents more and more reasons to educate their children at home.
Classroom invasions are now routine. Kids are the consumers of the future and companies recognize the time to get them is when they’re young and impressionable.
“Very bad news for American parents,” p2pnet posted recently.
“Through their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney have been aggressively targeting classrooms across the US, using teachers to plant specious corporate messages.”
Now a court in California says parents, “do not have a constitutional right” to home-school their children,” says the Christian Science Monitor.
A state appellate court decision last month is a setback that, if not overturned on appeal, “could force some 166,000 home-schooled students in California to enroll in conventional schools,” says the story, going on:
“It may also prod California and other states with vague or nonexistent laws on home schooling to be more specific about what is allowed and what is required of home-schoolers.
“California’s education statutes, for instance, do not mention ‘home schooling,’ but officials have allowed the practice for decades. The appellate court, however, found that the state’s laws have not been changed to allow home schooling since a case back in 1953 erected a major roadblock to the practice.”
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he’ll go to the legislature if the ruling isn’t overturned, says the story.
The pic is from the HomeSchool Association of California site.
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Also See:
p2pnet – MPAA – invading US schools, March 6, 2008
Christian Science Monitor – Home-schoolers reel from California court blow, March 10, 2008
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
There are much better reasons to homeschool your children than the media mafia spreading propaganda in schools.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Who said it’s the only reason, or even the most important? But it’s still a significant factor.
Cheers!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Agreed–it’s a good reason, though, as you noted, obviuosly not the only or the most important reason. Why let these companies have access to your children, and all at your expense? For that matter, of course, why let the state have access to them? But the omnicompitent state will see to homeschoolers, I’m sure.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
A little over 11 years ago, when we discovered we were going to be parents, we decided we wanted to be around while our child (a daughter) grew up.
Just about every day is fun and a new experience. Other considerations apart, the three of us would’ve missed a very large part of this had she been at school.
Cheers!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I guess the people of California need to hold a referendum seeking a law that protects the RIGHT of parents to homeschool their children.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Gov. Schwarzenegger says he will defend the rights of parents in this case.
We’ll see. . .
March 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am
One more reason to homeschool, apart from shielding children from corporate propaganda and brainwashing:
http://www.astronomybuff.com/why-im-homeschooling-my-kid-in-science-next-year/
he is talking about Colorado, but the problem is widespread