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In reply to the discussion: 'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)It sounds like you've got the axe to grind.
I went to public school as did my wife. My daughter is in public school and my son is too young for school (but will go to public school). When I was in high school, we had NO home schooled kids. A few years later, the town had a handful of them and some wanted to play sports. The parents paid their taxes, asked the town if their kids could try out for the teams, the towns had to look into the local rules and said okay. The kids tried out. Some were good some were not, but it was good for both the public and home schooled kids that they interacted. Somehow, it didn't lead to the collapse of the entire public school system, no one died and no animals were harmed.
My "angle" is that I've seen what appears to be proposed in practice, and I'm listening to people with these ridiculous "doom and gloom" scenarios. Mostly, I like to debate with people in the hopes that either I will enlighten someone else, or even better, they will enlighten me. I have no real dog in this fight (though having two small children, I guess I eventually will).