The LA Times caused a false alarm this week in their report on an Appeals Court decision on what they called home schooling. Fortunately for home schoolers, they didn’t know what they were talking about.
Apparently, neither did their expert:
“This decision is a direct hit against every home schooler in California,” said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which represents the Sunland Christian School, which specializes in religious home schooling. “If the state Supreme Court does not reverse this . . . there will be nothing to prevent home-school witch hunts from being implemented in every corner of the state of California.”
In fact, they got the facts wrong and the story wrong. Nothing new.
The real facts are here and home school advocates should be consulted before a parent tries to do this without advice. The parents in that Appeals Court case got bad advice from the same guy the Times relied upon for its story.
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