Whoa, did you see the results of the Parade Magazine poll? The question asked June 1 was, “Should teaching credentials be required for parents who home-school their children?”. This question was a result of a February California state appeals court ruling that unless parents have recognized teaching credentials, they must send their children to school. The judge, citing a state education law, said that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children.”

Well, the results are in, and it ended up 95% No, 5% Yes. Yeah, yeah, we know, this wasn’t a scientific poll with controlled sampling and so forth, and it’s possible that homeschoolers caught wind of the poll and voted en-mass. But still, 95% is an overwhelming majority, don’t you think?

The California case has not yet been decided to our knowledge, and so the estimated 166,000 California children who currently are home-schooled are not in immediate jeopardy. But if the ruling stands, it could influence home school laws across the USA.

To give you an update, oral arguments were held June 23 for the rehearing of the ‘In re Rachel L’ homeschooling case. The court has 90 days to take action, so we should expect a ruling by late September. You can get more details on the oral arguments phase here.

But getting back to the Parade poll, we think the message sent was: Don’t mess with our homeschooling. If it ain’t broke, don’t ‘fix’ it.

We think it’s high time these social activist judges, who are unaccountable to the electorate, stop legislating from the bench in an attempt to thwart the will of the majority of the people. This phony concept of their supposed intellectual and moral superiority over us mere mortals has got to stop.

We find it insulting that they apparently don’t trust us as parents to make the right decisions for our children’s education and future. They somehow feel the need to exert their power over our lives and give us poor dunderheads the benefit of their ’superior intellect’ . In other words, they have to make the ‘right’ decisions for us because we’re not smart enough or sufficiently enlightened to do it ourselves.

The same thing happened recently (in California again, big surprise) with the ’gay marriage’ ruling–The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. We think you can guess our views on that one. We won’t open that huge can of worms right now, but this is just another glaring example of judges gone wild, coming to a state near you soon.