Why a California Court of Appeal Ruling Threatens to Make Home Schooling Illegal
UC Davis Law professors Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein have this commentary on Findlaw discussing the California ruling and the larger policy implications of homeschooling. They write:
. . . When the Parker case is read alongside California’s Rachel L. case, and these decisions are considered in light of the constitutional limits on, and the political resistance to, government funding of religious private schools, we begin to wonder about the following question: Shouldn’t there be some opt-out opportunities, in at least some circumstances, that are accessible to families of limited economic means who cannot afford private school? We offer no concrete recommendations here. One of us, Alan Brownstein, has written at length raising constitutional and policy questions about government funding of religious schools. The other, Vikram Amar, has serious questions about the relative quality of home schooling . . .