Read it and weep, fellow Americans:

Los Angeles, Mar 7, 2008 (CNA).- A California court decision restricting two parents’ ability to homeschool their children could subject all California parents to criminal penalties for homeschooling, WorldNetDaily reports.

Allegations of abuse had been brought against Phillip and Mary Long of Los Angeles, who disciplined their homeschooled children with spankings. After the case was closed by the court, the two attorneys appointed to represent the Longs’ two youngest children filed a special appeal challenging the Longs’ right to continue homeschooling their children.

The Second Appellate Court in Los Angeles granted the attorneys’ appeal. Justice H. Walt Croskey, whose opinion was joined by two other judges, declared, "Parents who fail to [comply with school enrollment laws] may be subject to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program."

The Long family’s children were enrolled in Sunland Christian School, a private homeschooling program. Judge Croskey, without hearing arguments from the school, said this was a "ruse of enrolling [children] in a private school and then letting them stay home and be taught by a non-credentialed parent.”

The appellate court confirmed a lower court’s finding that "keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children's lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents' 'cloistered' setting."

Did you catch that? The worry from the judge is that the parents might be a baleful influence on their children and thus only a properly credentialled representative of the government's education monopoly can ensure what is best for the children. This is just the latest in a long line of attempts by the left - going back more than 200 years - to remove children from parental control and have the State raise them to be what the State wishes them to be.

This nauseating ruling must be overturned - it is the family which is the foundation of society, not government-run indoctrination centers...err, I mean "public schools". The damned schools can't even teach kids to read and write at times, yet a group of judges holds public schools to be superior in education quality to parents who actually love their children! Enough is enough - it is time we smack down this sort of nonsense and let the left know that we won't allow them to destroy us.

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