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  • EARTH TO CALIFORNIANS

    Filed at 3:51 pm under by dcobranchi

    This ain’t homeschooling, no matter how many times you say it is.

    6 Responses to “EARTH TO CALIFORNIANS”


    Comment by
    Roy W. Wright
    December 22nd, 2004
    at 7:16 pm

    “…homeschooling through charter schools…”

    On behalf of California, I’m sorry for this abject stupidity.


    Comment by
    Daryl Cobranchi
    December 22nd, 2004
    at 7:43 pm

    Here’s the LttE that started it. I saw it when it came out last week but let it slide since it was written by a kid.


    Comment by
    Adrian
    December 22nd, 2004
    at 9:33 pm

    Daryl,
    It’s CA. This is about as far away from government as most of us out here can get.


    Comment by
    Daryl Cobranchi
    December 23rd, 2004
    at 12:20 am

    Adrian,
    I have been seriously considering just not blogging any homeschooling story out of CA. Y’all’s laws are so screwy and no one seems to really care to keep homeschooling “pure.” If I lived there, it’d be R4 or nothing.


    Comment by
    Adrian
    December 23rd, 2004
    at 12:47 pm

    Daryl,

    That sounds like a plan. If you’re up for some real fun, try telling a Californian that government isn’t the answer to all our problems. You’re going to set off some extreme cognitive dissonance if you do that, and reduce the person to a perplexed statue or ranting idiot. (That is, of course, unless you’ve run into the 100 or so of us like Roy and me who actually think differently.)


    Comment by
    Davida
    December 24th, 2004
    at 1:02 am

    I looked into charters when my son started begging me to homeschool him almost 2 years ago. I couldn’t stomach them. It’s still public school. So of course we went the R-4 route. When my husband gets back from his deployment we’re supposed to be moving to somewhere about 25 miles north of Chicago. I’ll be SO GLAD to leave this state behind. Pretty state, nice weather down here, but not worth the price, all around. We’ll miss our friends, our homeschool group, and our church, but we are ready to get out of here, and I’ve always wanted to go to Chicago.

    I haven’t looked much into Illinois homeschool law yet, however….