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Should home-schooled students be allowed to play high school football?
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Here's a reason why not:

The state recompenses schools for the number of students who are attending classes, not those who participate in extra-curricular events. Sports programs are very--sometimes ruinously--expensive. Why should a school be forced to take a home-schooled child and not receive any state money for doing so?

The slippery-slope is also an issue. What certification that a child is actually being home schooled? In a lot of Virginia cities--Richmond, Petersburg, Roanoke, Newport News, etc.--most children who fail do so for attendance reasons. Why not keep your kid in the athletics program he loves, and simply say he's being home-schooled? What's the rationale for keeping the home-schooled from other extra-curriculars: band and theater appear to be exempted from the bill, but why?
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Re: Should home-schooled students be allowed to play high school football? - by J Marston - 02-08-2012, 09:55 PM

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