A judge from the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles has
ORDERED that two children being home schooled must "be enrolled in a public school or "legally qualified" private school, and must attend."
While I don't know the specifics of the case (
and have seen cases in the past where it was my opinion that parents were saying they were home schooling their children, and then not doing anything) what is most scary to me is the text in the judge's ruling where he denies that a parents right to religious freedom extends to the education of their children (emphasis added):
"We agree … 'the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education.'"
When it came to the parent's religious beliefs, the court responded:
Their "sincerely held religious beliefs" are "not the quality of evidence that permits us to say that application of California's compulsory public school education law to them violates their First Amendment rights."
"Such sparse representations are too easily asserted by any parent who wishes to homeschool his or her child," the court concluded.
In other words, according to the court in the state of California, the state has every legal right and authority to demand absolute control over the mind of children living in that state.
Children are no longer legally under the control of their parents to help them grow in their belief systems, these poor children are the de facto wards of “The State.” The only thing the state wants from parents, is the financial support of the children.
As California goes, so goes the rest of the US. So, in 10 to 15 years, as this philosophy works its way across the US we will find that our children must be surrendered to the control of the government. Parents who resist will face losing their children and/or criminal prosecution.
This is a common tactic of totaliatarian governments. Hitler banned home schooling in 1938 because he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation's youth. That law, by the way, has never repealed.
This is a byproduct of the Liberal-Socialism which is “progressively” gaining near absolute power over our lives in this country. They have taken over our schools in an attempt to indoctrinate our children in secular atheism, liberalism, militant environmentalism and sexual expression
(both the acceptance of homosexualism and the advancement of sexual promiscuity in heterosexual relationships). They have been voted into power at the legislative level and clearly have grasped the reigns of the courts.
By controlling the minds, attitudes, and values of the children, they will stamp out the ideas of individuality and achievement. It may take 20 or 30 more years for them to see the fruition of what they are cultivating, but these children will grow up and vote. And then we will have "democratically" elected socialist. While we may never be ruled by a dictator, we will be ruled by 535 dictators to whom we willingly gave power. Whether it is one or 500, it is still a totalitarian government.
