There's an article in Today's San Francisco Chronicle: Court limits home-schooling to credentialed teachers about how the courts have found home schooling in California to be illegal unless done by credentialed teachers. So just what will happen to the 166,000 children mentioned in the article who are being home schooled?
I see a niche market opening up for credentialed teachers using technology to provide homeschooling tutoring. Would a teacher instant messaging a student and correcting their homework through email count? Where will the line be drawn? It's pretty tough to get a teaching credential as specified by the State of California: You must complete a professional teacher preparation program, including successful student teaching, at the level you wish to teach. Pretty scary stuff: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl561c.pdf.
Education is always a fun topic for science fiction. I was once looking at books in the library and came across James Clavell's book The Children's Story about a class of children that is quickly re-educated in their classroom. It was one of these really scary stories that seemed all too real. Sometimes I wonder if home schoolers believe this is what happens to their children at school.
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