Home Schooling and Child Welfare Law – CA Speaks (again)

Last Friday, the California Court of Appeals issued a decision legalizing home schooling. The case, Jonathan L. v. LA County DFCS, was reheard by the Court after an earlier panel declared home schooling illegal on February 28, 2008. The resulting outcry lead to a petition for rehearing bolstered by almost four pages of amicus curiae including the ACLU, Jewish Homeschoolers of Napa and Sonoma Counties, the American Center for Law & Justice, and Members of the United States Congress. What is mostly lost in the public debate about Jonathan L. is that it was brought as a child welfare and not a public education case. The family in this case had a history ...