Home Schooling requiring a teaching credential?

[Cupid]

Is it true that home schooling is soon going to require a teaching credential otherwise your child's schooling will not be valid? I am confused on if this will only be required in certain states or nationwide?
Here is an article: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_homeschool07.12d3570.html
Also, what do you think should be fair?

[Starsfan14]

I think it is only in California. I hope it doesn't go nation wide. I think people have the right to home-school their children regardless of if they are certified or not. Home school kids (at least where I live) have to annual test to see if they can go to the next grade and then a test when they graduate. That should be enough.

The U.S. is a country of choice and how a child is educated is the choice of the parents. Not everyone that home schools has the time or the extra money to get certified. That doesn't mean that they are not qualified to teacher their own child.

Think about it. This California law means if you are lawyer, doctor, engineer or many other well educated professions that you are not educated enough to teach your own child. I think that is ludicrous!

[Ian Sutton]

Haha...CA is wack...that ain't gonna happen here in Florida...at least for a LONG time...we've got so many homeschoolers here its incredible...So if ur homeskooled and live in CA move to Florida and you won't regret it.

[Sherry B]

I know here in CA that is what they are saying. I am torn by this, as I can understand why they would want to require credentials. I worry that parents w/out credentials are not teaching their children properly. But as a parent myself, I also understand the desire to homeschool my child if I chose.
But, don't worry, it will be in litigation for quite some time.