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Parents of the approximately 200,000 home-schooled children in California are
reeling from the possibility that they may have to shutter their classrooms —
and go back to school themselves — if they want to continue teaching their own
kids. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of
Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by
credentialed teachers in public or private schools — or at home by Mom and
Dad, but only if they have a teaching degree. Citing state law that goes back to
the early 1950s, Croskey declared that "California courts have held that under
provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to
home school their children." Furthermore, the judge wrote, if instructors teach
without credentials they will be subject to criminal action.