Can a home school be considered a "school" in terms of sexual-offender registration requirements?

No, frankie. Because a homeschool does not operate under the licensing standards of a "regular" school.

California has never been a homeschool friendly state. The education apparatus there is very touchy about the fact that homeschoolers tend to outperform their traditionally educated peers on testing and in college admissions (when colleges give equal weight to homeschool transcripts), and so they focus on "socialization" and other areas in order to try and salvage some sort of unearned pride in accomplishment when it comes to learning/teaching.

Utter bullshit, of course. But they have a lot at stake. Like 12 grand per year per child.

So, this way they can make the kids learn what they want them to and not learn things like, oh, history and math while at the same time teaching kids to be overly entitled and call in false claims of child abuse because Daddy took away the computer access.

Oh, gee, I seem to be kind of irritable today. Sorry...

Oh, gee, I seem to be kind of irritable today. Sorry...

No problem. I just about had a cat when, at a parent council meeting, the principal at the girl's school said that they will be changing the school's emphasis from reading to citizenship and health. I'm sorry - there are kids in my daughter's 4th grad class who aren't reading, and they think they've emphasized reading and literacy enough?!? And this is a good school, far better than the average public schools around here.

I was too stunned to say anything (I'm not quick on my feet at the best of times), and saw nothing but nods of agreement around the room.

Grrrrrrrrrr...

and saw nothing but nods of agreement around the room.

I guess this is how someone came up with the term "sheeple".

Lyana, there was an article in the WaPo today about a school in Maryland that did art all day in protest to declining art and music instruction in school to teach reading and math.

Now, I don't want there to be less art and music, but there are only so many hours in the day. And I kept wanting to ask, "When did these kids' parents abrogate their responsibility to give their children an appreciation for the arts? There are museums all over the friggin' place in America. Museums for EVERYTHING. Let me tell you, I've taken my kids to some very boring museums and some great ones. But we try to see as many as possible so that they understand what is out there.

I would not expect their school to do this, if they went to one. It's MY job as a parent. See, that's what having kids means -- you take responsibility for them.

Not everyone can teach a child to read. It's not easy, and it's very frustrating. But everyone can take their child to the museum on free day (if money's an issue). Everyone can check out art books and classical cds from the library.

So I'm just out of sympathy for the poor parents whose kids aren't cultured on this one.