Insurance jobs on usually pay based on sales commissions. Something to think about...

I agree. They should leave that to the sports league!

One of my son's teachers told parents at the beginning of school meeting:

Some of the children will go on to be engineers, teachers, computer technicians but we have to accept that some of them will be flipping burgers.

Not sure if I'm using this quote thing correctly (I'm new here). Here's a blurb from the Sacramento Bee:

Repeatedly, the couple were reported to the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services for, among other charges, suspicion of child abuse. A lawyer representing two of the children filed suit, asking that the children be put in public or private school where other adults could monitor the children's safety.

Last month, a three-judge panel overturned the trial court's refusal to have the children ordered into a traditional school setting.

Judge Croskey wrote that under the state's Education Code, "parents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children."

Most homeschoolers have many outlets for social interactions and the good thing is that they can pick and choose appropriate settings and people.

Wow! How cool to hear everyone's opinions on this subject! I think the danger in this ruling is that it makes the assumption that schools are the watchdogs for what happens inside people's homes. This case came about because of suspicion of abuse in the home. Abuse can occur in any home, it is completely irrelevant to whether or not a family chooses to homeschool.

R u in Ohio? (To the snowed in people) Guess you don't want to hear that it was in the 70s in Cali. today...

Ok, this one really gets my goat!

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California home-schoolers have been deeply rattled by a state appeals court ruling that says children whose parents don't send them to public or private schools must be taught by credentialed tutors.

Parents who don't comply can be criminally prosecuted, said Judge H. Walter Croskey in an opinion issued by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

"It's shocking," said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative law firm that has agreed to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court. "This is without question the greatest affront to the rights of parents witnessed so far in the state of California."

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Luckily, Arnold Schwarzenegger is backing up homeschoolers! I homeschooled my children for two years, for very good reason: they were not safe at school! Now, they are back in public school, in a good school district, but if I needed to, I would go back to homeschooling.

Any thoughts on this out there?