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In reply to the discussion: 'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)They have modest incomes and chose to buy "more house" for the same money in an urban neighborhood rather than buying a smaller home in suburbia with its better schools. And they believe that their children will get a better understanding of "real" life growing up with low-income neighborhood kids as opposed to going to essentially all-white, upper-middle class kids.
The Dayton City Schools make a lot of money from the property taxes that these families pay. I've never heard any of our friends complain about this because they understood the pros and cons of buying a house in Dayton neighborhood. Paying taxes to support schools that you don't plan to use is one of the "cons".
I don't think either of these families have any interest in their children playing sports at the public schools in their neighborhoods but, if they did, I think they should be allowed to do so since they support these same schools financially.