This has me concerned

A California court recently struck down homeschooling as a legal alternative to the public or private school system.

According to this article, the results of this decision are not immediately known and it is being appealed.

It doesn't affect me personally as my children are technically enrolled in a public charter school, but that will not be the case when we get to high school.

Here is a scary part of the court's ruling:
Specifically, the appeals court said, the trial court had found that "keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children's lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents' 'cloistered' setting."

I'm very scared when the courts and state of California start telling parents how to raise their children. Not only are they completely WRONG in their assumption that homeschoolers never see the light of day outside their own homes, but they are WRONG to make it a LEGAL requirement for parents to provide those outside influences.

Parents are the best source of determining what is right or wrong for their child. This is not my opinion. This is the system that God has put in place. He has given children to two parents and has given plenty of instruction on how to raise them. They are OUR responsibility and not the state's. Unfortunately we have been told again and again by secular authorities that we do not know how to raise our children. We must do it their way.

But just how successful is "their way"? According to this, California ranks 47th out of 50 states in the education system. 47th!!!! Whereas homeschoolers consistently score an average of 30 percentile points above the norm on standardized test. That's percentile points not just raw points! That means where an average score is 50%, a homeschoolers will score 80%!

So who cares about education and who cares about a "'cloistered' setting"? Homeschooling offers proven educational results. The state offers a cloistered (and very artificial) setting (where else in life will you spend the bulk of your day in one room with 20-30 people your exact same age, doing the exact same activities at the exact same level in the exact same timeframe? That's the "real world" homeschoolers miss out on.) and a one-size-fits-hardly-anyone methodology. But they know best.

Well, I'm rambling (or is it ranting) now...