Home schooling parents will have to be credentialed?

Home schooling parents will have to be credentialed. Children may be enrolled in private schools that don't require teachers to be credentialed, but if they are physically in the home the parent/teacher or tutor must be credentialed appropriately for the child's grade level. Is this a turning point for home schooling?

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/20... Asked by galileogirl 46 months ago Similar questions: Home schooling parents credentialed Education & Reference > K Through 12.

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I don't think so... I believe this will be challenged and an equitable arrangement agreed to. I am a firm believer in the value of quality public schools over private and home schooling. Having said that, I do believe every parent should have the right to make the choice on how to raise and educate his/her child(ren).

If home schooling is deemed best, then home schooling it is for those kids. It seems to me that certification is as much for the amassing of power by the certifying bodies as it is for the quality assurance of the thing being certified--in this case education. I believe there are quite a few standardized tests given in each state to measure the educational performance of students and their teachers.

Looking at how these test results change over time could be a good way to measure both student accomplishment and teacher effectiveness. I think we all have read about how many schools fail to achieve quality results, despite having credentialed teachers and administrators. I am not advocating that we should dispense with certifications.

For those who are entrusted with the responsibility to educate others’ children, I agree that certifications should be the tickets to entry to the profession. But, I see home schooling in a different light. For one thing, I believe it is a parent teaching his or her child--not someone else’s children.

If these students and teachers are subject to the same performance testing requirements as public and private schools, I see no reason to require that a parent acquire an MAT in Education or whatever. So, again, is this recent decision in CA a turning point for home schooling? No, I don’t believe so.

I feel this will be appropriately challenged. Hopefully, home schooling parents will band together lest they fall victim to the superior power and budgets of the CA teacher’s union. Btw, I have rarely seen laws implemented with immediate effective dates.

How would most public school teachers feel if the courts suddenly passed a law requiring all state certified teachers possess a PhD in their fields of specialization, effective immediately? I’ll bet 95% of the teacher public would need to go back to school for 3-5 years. What would happen to the students currently in the system?

I guess they could be home schooled... But, it would be absurd to penalize these students for the whims of the credentialling body. As strongly as I feel about the superiority of the education experience at our public schools, I also wish home schooling parents godspeed at successfully challenging this statute.

I hope so. I am a teacher in a public school and see no problem with homeschooling. But, the child will only learn as much as the parent knows.

I see every day parents in my community homeschooling their children because they didn't like anyone disciplining their child. That's ok if the parent has the ability to teach the child. But in most cases it's ignorant parents who have very little education themselves and their children end up just like them.

What makes this terrible is that the child has no choice in the matter. Mississippi, where I live, has the most lax standards on home schooling of any state. Don't get me wrong, I have seen brilliant parents teaching children and they end up as productive citizens and don't blame some parents for wanting their child out of many public school environments because of crime, drugs, gangs, etc.But some system has to be set up to determine if parents are qualified to teach.

The way I look at it, why do you have to have a teacher's license to work in a school if you are going to let anyone homeschool. Sources: personal experience .

That is great! Too many children are being educated by people who don't have the education and intelligence to do it and that is, in my mind child abuse and child neglect.

Not a good sign but not surprising. Of course the article you refer to is about California, and the paper is from SF. Everyone knows that Californians are nuts liberal and I expect SF to succede from the Union any day now.

This is obviously a power play by the teachers unions. They see home schooling as a threat to their monopoly. They can't stand competition and want the government to stop it.

Typical liberal thinking. They are against free enterprise. Yet, when I asked a question on askville about the power of the NEA (National Education Association) I get inundated with criticism from teachers.

Wake up everybody. Let the marketplace decide if home schooling lives or dies.

I know this is off topic, but I was wondering about the reasoning behind making parents have credentials, but not private school teachers.

There are so many out there it is hard to choose.

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