Holy Smokes!  Big brother sure is searching for any way to spy on the populace. 

I find it bizarre that the state felt it necessary to mandate that supplies for girls had to be in every bathroom. Are they free too? 

It wasn't that way when I was in school, but if need be there were always teachers who had emergency supplies. 

Aren't we talking about homes as opposed to public schools? Can the government mandate this for private bathrooms? what about pre-pubertal girls?

required agents of the California Department of Education (CDE) to inspect all bathrooms in homes where private homeschooling takes place to ensure that all female students have access to state mandated feminine hygiene products.

Yes, and too many parents play right into the hands of these dictators.

Yes, I know they say they will take your children away if you don't "co-operate" with them. And it may well happen from time to time.

As a matter of principle my husband and I refused to  register our children. Our two eldest went to school for under two and three years respectively, then one day we simply did not send them. The law in Queensland where we were living required the principal to inform the police if the children were missing from school for a certain time. One day we were out and on our return our children observed the wheel tracks of a 4 wheel drive vehicle and we wondered who it was. We found out when we had another visit form the police. I happened to be away that day, though hubby and children were home.

The next day I phoned the police and informed that we decided to keep our children at home for their education. The police said OK, and that was the end of it. I guess they thought we were reasonable law abiding citizens.

The law also said you had to be a qualified teacher, or be supervised by a qualified teacher. Neither applied to either my husband or myself.

As Charles Dickens tells us: “the law is a ass—a idiot.” All the time we homeschooled we were illegal, but our children got a decent education, and will homeschool their children.

At that time, and in this part of the world, I would have much preferred to deal with police than education officials.