A Big Win for Judicial Supremacy, a Big Loss for Government Language Lawyers and Another Example of Real Change
A Big Win for Judicial Supremacy, a Big Loss for Government Language Lawyers and Another Example of Real Change by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 03/25/2008 ETUpdated 03/25/2008 ET Parents "do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children." So wrote a California judge in a case that has ominous potential for the estimated one million-plus American families who have opted out of the public education monopoly and choose to educate their children at home. Although the ruling is being appealed to the California Supreme Court, as it now stands, the 166,000 California children who are home schooled are truant, and their parents are criminals. Welcome, as the Wall Street Journal editorialized , to a "strange new chapter" in the "annals of judicial imperialism." No Teaching Credentials? No Home Schooling. For background, you should know that although California's compulsory education law requires that all children between the ages o...