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In reply to the discussion: 'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]tech_smythe
(190 posts)108. you really don't seem to understand the point of this law do you
it's MEANT to kill the schools!
why are you defending the home schoolers anyway?
seriously, what's your angle in all this?
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'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]
underpants
Feb 2012
OP
Public school players have to maintain a certain gpa to play. Homeschoolers? Who 'vets' their grades
peacebird
Feb 2012
#13
I would have thought so too, but my nephew was home-schooled. He is presently
truthisfreedom
Feb 2012
#28
Vincent Giordano agrees: NJ Teachers Union Boss With 500K Salary Tells Poor "Life's Not Fair"
stockholmer
Feb 2012
#118
I think the opposition to vouchers is mostly from people whose personal economic future is bound up
TMED
Feb 2012
#154
If you're not taking classes at that high school, you can't play sports there
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2012
#2
Their Parents Support The Activities; Thus, It Would Be Unethical To Deny Their Children
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Feb 2012
#74
No. Funding public education is the responsibility of all citizens. Period. An educated population
peacebird
Feb 2012
#16
What other services do you suggest citizens fund that they cannot take advantage of? nt
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#18
Everyone benefits from an educated citizenry. On edit: you said "take advantage of"... Hence our
peacebird
Feb 2012
#23
ALL OF THEM. Fire Departments have to serve disproportionately poor neighborhoods...
NYC_SKP
Feb 2012
#63
So if it takes 10 years then at least you are helping the future children.
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#189
You seem to be operating under the delusion that people pay taxes to send their children to school
Thor_MN
Feb 2012
#38
No, you were suggesting that homeschoolers should not have to pay taxes for public schools.
Thor_MN
Feb 2012
#142
Or maybe they're just living in the Bronx and don't want their kids to use the metal detectors.
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#119
You might very well be right but I fear these "school the kids @ home" fundy ...
Botany
Feb 2012
#163
"Home schoolers literally take money from the kids who are in public schools."
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Feb 2012
#79
Yes, but the schools don't have to spend any money educating the home schooled
totodeinhere
Feb 2012
#198
I know you didn't mean it this way but when you said "They often do have their own teams, and even
pampango
Feb 2012
#138
I'm all for allowing home schooled children to try out for Public School teams.
hughee99
Feb 2012
#24
Wonderful policy. Parents of home school students are taxed to fund school atheletic programs.
jody
Feb 2012
#31
They pay taxes to support sports, legally can refuse to go to school, so the result is they are
jody
Feb 2012
#51
What "We ALL pay taxes to support" is not the question. It is whether for a program that has not
jody
Feb 2012
#66
The parents opted out. Their choice. They can enroll their kids in one of the private
neverforget
Feb 2012
#49
The question is whether society benefits from education and how to apportion the cost of education
jody
Feb 2012
#60
You said this in post 53 "I agree if their tax bill is reduced the appropriate amount. nt"
neverforget
Feb 2012
#81
Nothing wrong with that. Send them to a school where there are other children.
neverforget
Feb 2012
#110
So a kid who doesn't go to that school can take the spot of kid who actually attends the
neverforget
Feb 2012
#243
Understand but IMO there is a difference between asserting society benefits from education and
jody
Feb 2012
#56
"I want to keep my precious away from public school low lifes AND let them play football too". nt
msongs
Feb 2012
#32
Total Accord Is Never Anticipated--But There Are Many Varieties Of Bright Lights.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Feb 2012
#96
Two progressive families we know choose to home school because they live in a big city.
pampango
Feb 2012
#143
Should students at private schools get to play on public school sports teams?
obamanut2012
Feb 2012
#46
If that private school doesn't have a team for the sport and the public one
Kellerfeller
Feb 2012
#201
considering that most HSers now a days are fundies teaching their kids fairy tales as facts...
tech_smythe
Feb 2012
#114
FWIW, most homeschool parents I know don't want access to public school teams/ facilities/ whatever.
LeftyMom
Feb 2012
#98
"Faith".... no. More like Political religio-fanaticsim that is Unamerican
fascisthunter
Feb 2012
#170
If there are all these homeschoolers out there let them former their own teams & clubs
LynneSin
Feb 2012
#161
You think athletics is the only thing kids miss out on when they're kept at home?
wtmusic
Feb 2012
#237
oh bullshit. if the sports teams are good enough for Johnny, then the school should be too.
Scout
Feb 2012
#166
I thought that extracurriculars were part of the decision in where to go to school
Nikia
Feb 2012
#181
I will not win any friends by saying this, but homeschooling should be abolished
Taverner
Feb 2012
#227
When we were in the US my african american neighbors were home schooling their own children.nt
expatriate2mex
Feb 2012
#251
So can I send me son to one school, and yet have him play football at another??
JoePhilly
Feb 2012
#275