Lileks has some thoughts:

Of course, home-schooling Bolsheviks will have less reason to complain soon. “This bill would delete provisions that prohibit a teacher giving instruction in a school from teaching communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism.” Apparently the teacher’s right to teach Communism trumps your right to school your kid yourself.

What a world. Sometimes, when I look at the educational system here–primary, secondary, college–I wonder if we really won the Cold War.

[Update mid morning]

Apparently the LA Times got the story wrong (What! Say it ain’t so!) about not allowing unaccredited parents to home school, so the situation in California is not as dire as originally thought in regard to home schoolers.

Maybe it was just wishful thinking on the part of the Times’ reporter and editor, since that paper has long been in the tank for the teachers’ union.