Due to a campaign of unrelenting phone calls, by just tons of parents, to all CA assemblymen, she has ammended the bill. This is not sufficient, nothing short of pulling it will satisfy the parents, so now all the parents need to re-call all the assemblymen and let them know this. Eggman is hoping her fellow assemblymen will think they can now safely sign.
SO, California, even if you do not have homeschooled kids, please write or call you representatives ! Call the respresentatives on the ed committees ! Week from friday is when they will be making decisions. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2926(c) On or before July 1, 2020, the advisory committee established pursuant to subdivision (b) shall make recommendations to the Superintendent and the state board on the appropriateness and feasibility of imposing on a home school additional requirements, which shall include, but are not limited to, all both of the following:
(1)Health and safety inspections.
(1) Minimum qualifications for home school instructors.
(2) Additional, specific Additional content or curriculum standards.
(3)Certification or credentialing of teachers.
I bolded stuff there,
not limited to means that the committee can add back in any item they want, including deciding to require inspections, so basically ammending the bill has done nothing. Even just what it specifically itemizes is problematic. Minimum qualifications for instructors ? This means minimum qualifications for parents to teach their own children ! A certain education level completed? An IQ test ? Courses in education theory ? I cant think of anything that would be appropriate.
Additional content ? If these families wanted the content offered in public school, they would have the kids there !
Here is the reality, if the homeschooled children want to pass a high school equivalency test, then they will meet at least those content standards. If they want to get into 4 year college or junior college, then they will be at least up to those standards. You may ask, why would they care ? Well, they want to work and have a life, so employers have standards, they want a high school diploma, and some want college course work. SO, there are already content and standards that the young people have incentive to reach. And they do, at much higher rates than public schooled students ! We dont even need to require yearly standardized tests, although many homeschool parents do utilize them, as there is this requirement of where they need to be at the end already in place.
