In re RACHEL L.
California Constitution does not guarantee parents the right to home school children. Where children were "enrolled" in a private school but were in fact taught at home by parent who was not a credentialed teacher, such schooling did not comply with compulsory education law. Parents' assertion that children's home schooling was necessitated by their "sincerely held religious beliefs...based on Biblical teachings and principles" was insufficient to establish that application of California's compulsory education law to them violated their First Amendment rights. Where juvenile court found that dependent children's home schooling was of poor quality and deprived them of important social opportunities, it was an error of law for court, absent showing that an exception to compulsory education law applied, not to order that children be enrolled in a public or private school other than school that was complicit in parents' denial of a legally sufficient education and that parents see to it that children were educated in such school.
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