{"id":3042,"date":"2021-12-17T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/12\/17\/amador-county-trade-school-wins-first-amendment-fight-against-california\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T06:06:25","slug":"amador-county-trade-school-wins-first-amendment-fight-against-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/12\/17\/amador-county-trade-school-wins-first-amendment-fight-against-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Amador County Trade School Wins First Amendment Fight Against California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(CBS13)<\/pre>\n
\u2014 An Amador County trade school has won a major First Amendment fight against the State of California, and now, new rules will go into effect on January 1 as a result of its legal battle.<\/p>\n
For 30 years, thousands of students have attended the Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School in Plymouth learning how to become professional farriers.<\/p>\n
But several years ago, California state regulators notified owner Bob Smith that the school was facing fines and closure for violating a law that requires trade school students to have a high school diploma, a GED or take an ability test.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t have relevance to what my guys do \u2013 shoe horses,\u201d Bob said.<\/p>\n
He says some of his students never graduated for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cEighty-five percent of foster kids drop out of high school, and they can\u2019t be trained not just in horseshoeing but welding and cosmetology massage therapy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
So Bob fought back, saying he has a First Amendment constitutional right to teach all students; And earlier this year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, prompting lawmakers to repeal the requirements.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s awesome because it was initially for my school but it affects virtually every trade school in California,\u201d Bob said.<\/p>\n
So why were the requirements in place? UC Hastings Law Professor John Myers says the rules had good intent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe initial purpose of this state law was directly to respond to these fly-by-night so-called educational institutions that were taking kids\u2019 money and then not delivering on the kinds of programs that would give these kids a future,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n
But he says the Constitution protects teachers and students.<\/p>\n
\u201cVocational training is speech protected by the First Amendment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bob is now ready to open his doors to all who want to hammer out a new career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfair that the government would come out and say you don\u2019t have a chance to invest in your own life,\u201d Bob said.<\/p>\n
Bob says his next battle may be fighting rules that require an English proficiency exam for foreign students who come from English-speaking countries like Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
See Video Report Here: https:\/\/gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com\/2021\/12\/15\/amador-county-trade-school-wins-first-amendment-fight-against-california\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
California state regulators notified owner Bob Smith that the school was facing fines and closure for violating a law that requires trade school students to have a high school diploma.  So Bob fought back, saying he has a First Amendment constitutional right to teach all students; And earlier this year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, prompting lawmakers to repeal the requirements.t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18,1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith.webp",1200,948,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-600x474.webp",600,474,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-768x607.webp",640,506,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith.webp",640,506,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith.webp",1200,948,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith.webp",1200,948,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-1200x720.webp",1200,720,true],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-1024x809.webp",1024,809,true],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-720x530.webp",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bob-Smith-350x350.webp",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Government<\/a> LifeStyle<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}