Back Talk

Our legislature, home state for that twin flagship of leftist lunacy, San Francisco and Berkeley, where they threw out our military recruiters and are going to erect bronze plates in the sidewalk to commemorate homeless deaths, has come up with another one. Parents will no longer be able to home school their children unless they have a teaching credential (the parents, not the student.) Home schooled kids have performed better on standard tests than government public schools but our Democrat legislature pushes that fact aside. Rather than ask themselves why the performance difference, they are taking their predictable approach and merely banning home schooling. If you cannot defeat your opponent in a debate, just have him removed from the debate. The teachers unions, having bought and paid for the California legislature, have fought any attempt at school choice or innovation that threatens the status quo. Home schools, as with charter schools, have been an open sore to the powerful unions because they decrease the head-count based funds – the life blood of any totalitarian organization. American schools are turning out students who can’t read, can’t do simple math, have no knowledge of American history, and are slipping further down the ranking of nations. We now rank below Latvia, right down there with Romania, Croatia, and Albania, far below western European countries.