PLEASE SIGN PETITION!!!!

Please read this even if you don't home school. This is a really big deal!

This is a email from a family that adopted with our agency. They sent this email out to families from our agency and I copied and pasted it for this post.

This message was sent to the South Dakota home school association to notify people of what is happening in California.

"By now, many of you have heard about the court decision that came out of California from a family law appellate judge who ruled that, in essence, the way the homeschooling has been done in California is illegal because most parents doing the homeschooling do not hold a teaching certificate. This ruling affects over 160,000 homeschoolers in California.
Basically, in California, homeschooling is done through "Satellite" schools. These are usually small church associated umbrella schools that allow the parents to direct the teaching, choose their own curriculum and typically have minimal supervisory contact with the parents. The system, which exists in a similar form in several states, works well in California.
Unfortunately, because this situation was escalated through a social services complaint, it has led to a judicial ruling that, while probably incorrect, could have far reaching ramifications in California as well as other states.

Here are a couple of links to articles about the California ruling:
http://www.foxnews. com/story/ 0,2933,335808, 00.html
http://www.sfgate. com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi? f=/c/a/2008/ 03/06/BAJDVF0F1. DTL&tsp=1
http://www.christia nitytoday. com/ct/2008/ marchweb- only/110- 43.0.html
http://www.hslda. org/hs/state/ ca/200803060. asp

Here is the ruling itself:
http://www.courtinf%20o.ca.gov/%20opinions/%20documents/%20B192878.PDF

Read this!

Here is a link to an article and at the end of the article you can sign the petition!

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000006717.cfm