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Court Ruling Hits Home Schoolers
A California court made home-schooling parents nervous in that state. The court said that parents could only home school their kids if they have a teaching credential. The judge said that parents don't have a right to home school their kids. If they try it without becoming licensed teachers first, they could face fines and criminal charges.
That made the parents of over 200,000 home-schooled kids pretty worried. The state of California was allowing parents to home school, as long as they hired a tutor, or worked with an independent study program through a licensed school.
The case is sure to be appealed. That means that the California Supreme Court will review it, and that court might decide that the judge's decision was wrong. If that happens, then home schoolers in California will have nothing to worry about.
Even if the court does not change the ruling, other steps are being taken to aid home schoolers. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California said that he would support a new law that gives parents the right to keep their kids out of schools and teach them at home if they want. In the meantime, California's superintendent of public instruction said that parents could keep home schooling the way they were before the court ruling.
I'm Ben and that's what happened in our nation this week.
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