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February 28, 2008 the California Court of Appeals handed down a ruling declaring homeschooling as illegal for all homeschoolers in California. SCS has secured the legal team of Pacific Justice Institute to pursue appealing this ruling at the California Supreme Court. Check our web site for updates on the process (www.home-schooling.org).
Dear SCS Family,
At a time when the validity of homeschooling is being questioned and our right to choose to homeschool is being challenged, we need to be reassured of the reasons for our choice to homeschool our children. Without question we all know the significance of our children getting a solid academic based education. With concerns about the environment and content of education available to our children through our public school system, we as parents find many reasons to be concerned about how that system is serving our children. As parents given the awesome gift and responsibility of raising children creates a desire and need to make choices that are the best for our children. Although we recognize that we can not shelter our children from elements of concern that they are exposed to everyday, whether in a school, social or public setting, not to mention television and other media publications. We can guide, guard and limit that exposure and provide supportive tools to assist them in interacting with others and discerning how to deal with the situations that they will face.
Our children are the young men and women of the future, and how we, with God’s guidance, participate in the influencing, shaping and molding of their lives is crucial. God’s call for us to homeschool as a means of guiding, nuturing and loving our children through these early years of their lives is a call we have answered! Just as we have recognized the need to seek other ways to educate our children, and that choice being homeschooling. The concerns that lead us to the choice to homeschool are also the foundation from which we must stand together in support of our choice. Life is never free of challenges that cause us to examine our values, morals and priorities that we have set as our lives pathway.
We need to stand in unity for our children, our family and God’s Family by seeking to uphold the values of family in today’s society. Be assured of Sunland’s continued support of your family as we stand with you in the raising of your precious children.
God’s Blessings,
Laura Neven
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