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In reply to the discussion: 'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House [View all]Botany
(70,476 posts)178. It is a complex issue and did not mean to paint w/ a broad brush
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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