Home School Ruling in California

 The California Court of Appeal made the right decision today. Visit HSLDA.org for the full news.

“In a unanimous decision, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District today ruled that “California statutes permit home schooling as a species of private school education.”

Today’s decision stands in stark contrast to the opinion this same three-judge panel issued in February, which would have made California the only state in the union to outlaw home education had it remained in effect.”

 –HSLDA newsletter

 I noticed the term “doctrinal anachronism” used in the opinion & felt that it was perfectly descriptive of the earlier ruling that got all this started.

In short, the rule of Turner and Shinn has been discounted as a doctrinal anachronism, and clinging to such precedent would undermine a practice that has been, if not actively encouraged, at least acknowledged and accepted by officials and the public for many years.

The definition of “anachronism” is  

1: an error in chronology; especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other

2: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present

3: the state or condition of being chronologically out of place

Well said. And a perfect victory.