WND is reporting:
Homeschoolers’ fate hangs on hearing results
Court’s earlier opinion said parents don’t have right to teach children
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Posted: June 20, 2008
6:11 pm Eastern

“The 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles is scheduled to hear oral arguments Monday in the Rachel L. case, the startling ruling released in February in which the judges concluded there was no constitutional or statutory provision for parents to homeschool their children.

The case immediately sparked nationwide outrage, up to the White House and Congress, which approved a resolution calling for a rehearing, and the court panel’s judges eventually scheduled new arguments in the dispute, effectively overturning their own earlier ruling.

Kevin Snider, chief counsel for the Pacific Justice Institute, is to argue the legality of homeschooling under both state law and constitutional law as a representative of the private Christian school that provided the overarching program in which the family participated.

An estimated 166,000 children are being homeschooled in California, and their future also will be argued by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, who represents the father in the case, along with the Alliance Defense Fund.

Jenny Hatch

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