| Hello all, Gwen is home and I am really happy. Rowan was so happy to see his sister. Gwen ate dinner on the floor next to his bouncer so he could watch her. I am glad they get along so well. Tomorrow I have a coop at my house. We are planning history. We are using Story of the World 3. The SOTW books are really good especially for elementary level because it is told like a, well, story. This article is being passed around the homeschool groups in my area. California parents arrested -- Caught Home-schooling their children
without a teaching credential
Written by Robert W. Armijo
Story written: 11 March 2008
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California's home-schooled headed for public schools? Sacramento,
California - A three-judge panel from the 2nd District Court of
Appeals made it illegal on February 28 for any parent to home school
their child, unless they have a teaching or tutor credential. Upon
hearing the ruling, school districts officials began demanding that
police take immediate action. So yesterday, throughout the state,
judges secretly began swearing out and signing arrest warrants for
any parent who was suspected of home-schooling their children
without a teaching credential.
Setting up a special task force virtually overnight, SWAT teams and
truant officers armed with arrest warrants and automatic weapons
began rounding up wayward parents, and against their will placing
their child in protective custody and enrolling them in public
schools throughout the state.
Originally thought to be a logistical nightmare, distinguishing home-
schooled children from that of the public school system, officials
quickly learned they could gather up a list of suspects from last
year's contestants, finalists and winners of the National Spelling
Bee Contest, unusually high SAT scores and any kid who passed a
random drug screen and/or pregnancy test.
"Also, we followed home any polite, courteous or well adjusted
child," said Dug Martinez, SWAT Commander. "Oh, and any kid we
caught actually doing their homework at the library."
In the early morning predawn darkness, SWAT teams and truant
officers began their statewide sweep, crashing down the front doors
in quiet peaceful suburban neighborhoods, but mostly in rural areas.
"After the California Superior Court medical marijuana ruling, the
three-judge panel of the 2ND District Court of Appeals had to do
something to try to restore the proper checks and balances to the
political system that has been inadvertently eroded by that ruling,"
said a political scientist. "So they did what anyone would do in
their situation, they pointed the finger at a minority group to draw
away public attention from themselves."
"Also, they must have thought the ruling against home-schooling
would bring in badly needed federal education dollars to the public
schools for the upcoming recession, securing the liberal vote for
the elected incumbency from the teachers' union," said a legal
analyst from the Cassandra Institute Foresight School of Law.
"Overall, we netted a pretty good raid," said Officer Martinez. "We
arrested the parents. Put the kids in protective custody and
enrolled them in public school. We confiscated a whole bunch of high
quality, up to date learning materials, too."
Listed among the home-schooling educational material seized by
police: copies of "Plato's Republic; The Prince; The Magna Carta;
The Federalist Papers; The Declaration of Independence; The
Constitution and The Bill of Rights."
"You know until today's raid, I never even bothered reading this
stuff myself. Let alone read it to my kids," said Officer
Martinez. "I just found out we've alienated these good people out of
at least three of their inalienable rights. Now, that ain't right."
The home-schooling learning materials will be held in the evidence
locker to be used at trail, unless a plea bargain is reached, then
they will be properly disposed with, according to Officer Martinez.
The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious. http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i31751 I like the part about confiscating "high quality, up to date learning materials". LOL I am off to bed before the baby gets up, Merry Part and Blessed Be |
