It seems like a true statement...but Im not sure its a good reason to not allow it.


I guess if you see a wave of kids on sports teams dropping out of school to get around the academic requirements you can revisit the law.

It sounded okay til I got to this part:





I would want it written into the law at the very least to require superintendents to inspect ALL portfolios of students who were participating in sports.

And unless I completely read that wrong there is still nothing they could do about a parent taking a test for a student.

 

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Both of my kids went to public schools, but were still basically home schooled.


There's no way I'd leave their education up to the clowns in the K-12 system.


As long as the home schooled kids parents pay taxes to support the public schools I don't see the problem with letting them play sports. Some places have a voucher system that gives home schoolers some tax breaks, they definately should have to give those up before their kids can play sports.

 

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Graduation requirements are much, much, much less then the requirements for the privilege of playing team sports.

We were required to keep a C average to play each semester. It's waaaay to easy to get around that with homeschooling.

That's way different then 'you only have to pass certain class and must pass standardized tests'

 

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I thought those were ruled unconstitutional? I know they were here in Florida, maybe SCOTUS hasn't addressed the issue yet.

 

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Don't care. If parents think they can do a better job, they're welcome to it.

Personally, i've never seen anyone that came out better from it.

 

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Then you are not looking very hard.

 

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Some people might be skeptical about these cases existing, but Google the name "Tate Forcier" and go to the website maintained by his dad, qbforce.com, for the life story a kid who:

- was homeschooled
- appears to have mostly studied "football" during high school
- parents shopped him around to various high schools to showcase his athletic skills
- got a DI scholarship
- ...and has since failed out of two colleges

I'm sympathetic to home school kids who just want to play sports in their district, so I think reasonable accommodations should be made to allow that, but I think the concerns about dbag parents trying to turn "homeschooling" + access to high school sports into proxy minor leagues are also valid. High school and even very young amateur athletics are increasingly becoming commoditized (hello Rivals.com, ESPNU broadcasting high school football and basketball games, Pop Warner and Little World Series Games getting significant TV exposure, etc.). I don't see that abating anytime soon. The natural consequence of that is going to be dbag parents doing dbag things with their kids to garner that attention, or visibility for the next step toward a scholarship, or path to athletic superstardom, or whatever they're trying to get their rocks off to. I think schools should guard against that kind of behavior.

I can't say if this law or whatever policy it replaced was overly broad or not. Just that the whole "lol OF COURSE YOU LET HOMESCHOOL KIDS DO WHATEVER THEY WANT" meme seems equally problematic.

 

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That really doesn't justify not allowing kids to play sports.


This kid had parents who were willing to screw him over and that is why he failed out of colleges. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

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Maybe not, but it also doesn't justify not holding the home schooled kids to whatever minimum/up-for-debate standards to which the kids who attend schools are held.

 

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