Recently a CA court overturned their ruling against Home Schooling in California. Court reverses, declares home schooling legal in Calif. This is great news! The initial ruling was you had to have a teaching credential in order to home school. And my guess is the next step would have been requiring a teaching credential in each area.

The school my daughter went to for Kindergarten was a Christian School that had heavy involvement with a lot of home schoolers whom we met at the yearly talent show. I also got a nice order for some Learning Chinese Textbooks from a Home Schooling family. I also have a section that is focused on Home Schooling Learning Chinese Resources including lots of free stuff.

And I do have a teaching credential in two areas (Business and Social Studies for grades 7-12) in California. My opinion is there is so much unnecessary junk in the teaching curriculum that is there to look good, but does not really teach you how to teach. Teach for America is an example of what can be done without going through a teaching credential program and get amazing results.

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This article mentions one of the students is Learning Chinese. Home-school parents battle towns, state (and I thought California had problems with home schooling).

I have created a section for Teachers and Home Schoolers. Teaching and Home Schooling Resources for Learning Chinese & China's Culture

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Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state - Due to an unexpected court case, the entire areas of home schooling in California has been thrown into doubt.

Since there are a lot of home schoolers in California, I expect this to get fixed pretty quickly. I am not sure why the California Teachers Association is involved, I don't see it as a win win situation for them at all since home schoolers will be seen as the underdog (family verses the state). The case this came out sounds messy with allegations of child abuse.

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