http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/texas-senate-approves-something-called-tim-tebow-bill-212158312.html
A number of states allow this, I know it's something that keeps coming up for debate in individual athletic conferences in my state, where sometimes it's allowed and sometimes it isn't.
There seems to be a lot of emotionally charged debate about it on both sides of the issue. If you say home-schooled kid's parents pay the same taxes and actually save the districts money by not sending their kids to school you get other parents taking offense and saying that home-schoolers cost the district state-allocated funds per student screwing over the other kids.
And then there are the academics standards to consider, and then you have homeschoolers against the idea because it opens the door for more state interference into their home-schooling.
My position is this: If I'm raising a kid in your town and am subject to the same property taxes and excise taxes as everyone else then I and my kid are entitled to equal treatment under the law regardless of how I choose to educate my kid, whether it be home-schooling, private tutoring, private school, charter school or whatever. If my kid wants to be on the swim team at his private school but on the public high schools baseball team then he should be able to. He should be able to take a public school bus home if that's what the other kids get to do too.
Every state has standardized testing, if my kid is scoring above grade level in those tests than that should be good enough to meet academic criteria in any cases where traditional grading is not available.
A number of states allow this, I know it's something that keeps coming up for debate in individual athletic conferences in my state, where sometimes it's allowed and sometimes it isn't.
There seems to be a lot of emotionally charged debate about it on both sides of the issue. If you say home-schooled kid's parents pay the same taxes and actually save the districts money by not sending their kids to school you get other parents taking offense and saying that home-schoolers cost the district state-allocated funds per student screwing over the other kids.
And then there are the academics standards to consider, and then you have homeschoolers against the idea because it opens the door for more state interference into their home-schooling.
My position is this: If I'm raising a kid in your town and am subject to the same property taxes and excise taxes as everyone else then I and my kid are entitled to equal treatment under the law regardless of how I choose to educate my kid, whether it be home-schooling, private tutoring, private school, charter school or whatever. If my kid wants to be on the swim team at his private school but on the public high schools baseball team then he should be able to. He should be able to take a public school bus home if that's what the other kids get to do too.
Every state has standardized testing, if my kid is scoring above grade level in those tests than that should be good enough to meet academic criteria in any cases where traditional grading is not available.
