
"Let
everyone who is Godly pray to you while you may be found"
(Psalm 32:6)
CA HOME SHOOLS UNDER
ASSAULT
Bureaucrats Resort to Deceit, Intimidation
Dr. Delaine Eastin, State Superintendent of Public Education,
is waging a war of lies and intimidation against home school
families in California - especially those new to home schooling.
Eastin has declared home schooling illegal and instructed local
education officials to reject forms submitted by home schoolers
to comply with laws that require them to "register"
as "private schools" with state & local education
authorities.
--In July, Deputy Superintendent Joanne Mendoza decreed that
home schoolers do not have "an authorized exemption from
mandatory public school attendance." A department spokesperson
said state policy has not changed and home school parents have
been operating illegally. "All parents are welcome to supplement
their children's education with home instruction," she said,
"but not substitute the education with uncredentialed home
instruction."
--Superintendent Eastin, wrote, "Under California law,
a 'home school' is not a private school, nor is it otherwise
recognized as a lawful alternative to public school... In California,
'home schooling'...is not an authorized exemption from mandatory
public school attendance..." (http://www.cde.ca.gov/govaffairs/private.html).
--The Home School Legal Defense Foundation (HSLDA) and Home
School Association of California (HSAC) say home schoolers are
on firm legal ground. HSLDF declared "victory" when
the California Assembly adjourned without passing any new law
to support Eastin's claims (see www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200209/200209041.asp
& www.hsc.org/legal/LTEastin.pdf).
Democrat control of the California governor's mansion and
state house has given rise to extraordinary liberal lawmaking
and extra-legal liberal bureaucratic activism from education
to abortion to homosexual rights. (see "The Liberal Future?"
http://www.worldmag.com/ world/issue/08-31-02/cover_1.asp ).
Christ commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Our
brethren and fellow countrymen in California are under siege
by anti-liberty, antinomian bureaucrats and we should be concerned.
By far the largest populated state in the Union, California has
been a bellwether for our nation in education, laws, fashion,
etc. Christians should be deeply concerned about what is happening
there because other states, especially the left-leaning ones,
will quickly follow California's lead.
Please Join us in Prevailing Prayer:
--Father, DEFEND & PROTECT California parents endeavoring
to train their children according to Your Word. May California's
legislators RESTRAIN those who engage in raw acts of Bureaucratic
Tyranny. RAISE UP God-fearing men & women in the coming elections
in California & elsewhere. Remove those who have no fear
of God. In Jesus' Name, Amen (Dt 6:4; Jer 10:2; Ps 36:24-28;
59:1ff; 75:6; Pr 6:16ff).

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