Discussions about the California court decision regarding home schooling have been making the rounds for a few days now, and various other folks have already mentioned it: e.g. here, here, here, and here.
Really, we’re not surprised by this decision, but I guess my jaw dropped a little when I read this from the judge’s explanation:
“A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.”
In the words of the teacher of my children, “At least they’re honest”.
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morganje // at
It’s refreshing to see such honesty from a government official. This is almost word-for-word the reason that officials in other countries (specifically a case in Germany) give for why they don’t want homeschooling. I would say that it is pretty clear that this thought has been behind compulsory government education from the beginning… it’s just that for a while there in the 19th century our elders got the nation cofused with the Kingdom, so they didn’t mind it so much. Regardless of his other positions, Dabney was a prophet on this issue.
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