<p>“The idea is mandating all teachers to be certified, whether in public or private schools or while homeschooling. I’m not sure how CA teacher certification works. In some states, all prospective teachers need to do is take a pretty basic test. That shouldn’t cause all that much fall-out; hopefully, all teachers who have been teaching without being certified (including parents) would be able to pass such a test. If teacher certification actually involves getting a degree of some sort, then that’s a different matter that would keep many children from being homeschooled and many longtime teachers in private schools from remaining in the classroom.”</p>
<p>In Calif to be credentialed you need a bachelor’s degree and then a fifth year in a credential program. The testing includes the CBEST, which is a basic knowledge test; the RICA, which is a test of how to teach kids to read; and a final test, mine was the MSAT but it is called something different now.
The state might let people do this with an emergency credential but that is still a bachelor’s degree and the CBEST.
As a public school teacher, I don’t think homeschooled kids need to have their parent be credentialed but there should be some basic oversight. Most homeschooled kids I have come in contact with have had an excellent education and it would be a shame to make everyone have to fit in the same exact mold.</p>