Will We Need Passports to Visit California?

Increasingly, it seems like a foreign country. I had heard a couple of years ago that California had effectively banned home schooling. I didn't look into it because, well, it is a liberal state, and the objective of banning home schooling is to encourage Christians to move to the United States. I see that the insanity keeps enlarging from this posting by Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org. Bader points to the Fields decision that I mentioned some time back, which essentially found that parents had no authority to countermand what the public schools did--such as asking 7-10 year olds about their sex lives and desires. At the time, I observed that as horrified as I was by the result, Judge Reinhardt seems to have come to the legally correct decision--but:

It is a strong argument for home schooling--and perhaps a strong argument for either scrapping public education, or allowing parents to move their tax dollars along with their children.

And sure enough, Bader tells us that the courts have closed that escape route, too:

But when parents respond to such rulings by exercising their choice not to send their kids to a public school, but rather home-school them, the courts then switch arguments to claim that there really is no such choice, claiming that the State can prevent anyone who lacks State-approved teaching “credentials” from teaching children, and that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” according to the California Court of Appeal’s disturbing ruling in another case, In re Rachel L. (2008).

It seems that liberals are doing their best to achieve the goal stated by their patron saint, Benito Mussolini: "Nothing against the State, nothing outside the State."