The problem here is that in California, homeschooling has no legal standing. It is pursued largely via a provision for private schools to define what they require of their teachers in terms of training/certification/whathaveyou. There are no homeschools in California. There are private schools in the home. This may seem like a small distinction, but it really is the homeschool community leveraging the private school portions of the law.

Other states explicitly allow homeschooling as such, California does not.

This ruling appears to delegitmize all forms of education other than that which is undertaken by a certified teacher, regardless of the environment/location.

This mess has been brewing for awhile, with parents being told that they cannot exempt their children from sex education, which Dan Allender author or The Wounded Heart would call sexual abuse (sexual behavior or information which is age inappropriate and/or undesired). This is only one of several issues wrapped up in this “argument”.

It boils down to this: Are the parents or the village responsible for/in control of a child’s upbringing? Dewey, the father of modern education, was nothing like neutral in this. For him the purpose of education was to create good citizens.

In a statist world, the definition of “good citizen” can be and is becoming quite scary.