Home schooling isn’t that onerous

Re “Defending home-style ABCs,” April 3

In articles about the latest ruling affecting home schooling, I have not seen anything mentioning what a parent would have to do to obtain a credential. I home schooled my daughter for more than two years. It was a wonderful experience, and I enjoyed it so much that I decided I might enjoy earning some extra money as a substitute teacher. I don’t believe I had to do anything more than take the California Basic Educational Skills Test and get fingerprinted. Do we really want parents who can’t pass the CBEST educating the next generation?

Wendy Velasco

Whittier

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This article points to the processes involved in home schooling. Looking at results of how the home schoolers do in their school careers would be more productive. If they are already doing well on their state testing and moving on to college at a high rate, what is the point of fiddling with that success by requiring that parents of home schoolers have a teaching credential?

Barry McPhee

Newport Beach

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The problem with home schooling isn’t the issue of academics. The problem is the reduced opportunity to learn to deal with a world that will not always agree with you. When I was young and living in a kid-crowded neighborhood, one day I came home complaining to my mother about something now long forgotten. Her answer was, “Go back and deal with it yourself. The world is not obliged to do everything your way.” I have graduate degrees now, but that simple sentence was the best bit of education I ever got.

Deanna Williams

Monterey Park