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Appeals court takes a second look at homeschooling

By Jason Siegel

The 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed to take a second look at whether parents must have teaching credentials in order to home-school their children.

Last month's ruling by the Los Angeles court barred parents from home-schooling their children.

"The three-judge panel in the home-schooling case hinted at a re-evaluation of its entire Feb. 28 ruling by inviting written arguments from state and local education officials and teachers' unions," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The new hearing is scheduled for June.

Background

The case involves a Lynnwood couple facing allegations of physical abuse involving some of their eight children. A lawyer representing two of the children requested that they attend a public or private school rather than being home-schooled by their mother.

A trial court disagreed but the 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously overruled that decision, finding that parents don't have a constitutional right to home-school their children and that the mother in the case was violating state laws by teaching without a teaching credential.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).