I am responding to the comment below of 2.21.03 that claims homeschooling isn't legal in California without a teaching credential or public/charter school affiliation. That's incorrect, and what the writer stated as an opinion of the California Department of Education (CDE) was reversed this year when a new Superintendent of Public Education, Jack O'Connell, took over. He had all negative statements about private school homeschooling taken off the CDE website because they are not accurate. There are no laws against homeschooling in California, and thousands of families file a Private School Affidavit with the CDE every year to homeschool privately, independent of the public school system. To be forced to homeschool only through a public school affiliation such as a charter school is a violation of 14th Amendment Constitutional Rights as they have been explained and affirmed in numerous U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1923 to as recently as 2000. "The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." - Pierce v. Society of Sisters, U.S. Supreme Court (1925) For more extensive information on the legality of private school homeschooling in California, please refer to the websites linked above, especially the California Homeschool Network and the HomeSchool Association of California.