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In reply to the discussion: 'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)it's 6- 12 grade - also known as "hippie high." They don't have sports teams, band, etc, but they have classes and a more student directed experience.
The students attend those after school extracurricular activities in their local neighborhood middle or high school.
It works fine, and allows us "hippie" parents to send tour kids to a public school where kids learn much more about democracy and being active citizens, and still have the full range of sports, band, etc that our taxes pay for.
We still have to go to the neighborhood high for the sports and band - we don't get our choice of any school in the city. And it does keep us involved in the local neighborhood school, in terms of what's offered in the way of those programs. We're expected to participate in the bake sales and other fundraising for those programs, and PTA meeting where those decisions are made about our kids' teams.
I see no reason to penalize homeschooled kids for a decision that their parents made concerning homeschooling. It benefits the public school to have more participation, where those parents would not have participated at all.