Posted on 07/29/2013 1:09:32 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Homeschooled and private-school students across Ohio now have the right to play on sports teams and participate in other extracurricular activities thanks to a provision in the new state budget.
Previously, each local school board came up with its own policy on the issue.
Athletic and other extracurricular associations have their own rules about student participation in competitive or inter-scholastic activities. This provisions in the state budget override those rules.
Under the new provisions, public schools must allow private-school students to participate in an extracurricular activity only if their private schools do not offer the same activity.
And both homeschooled and private-school students must meet the same age and grade requirements as district students and pay the same fees, if any are required. The Ohio High School Athletic Association isn’t thrilled about the changes. The changes go against the principles that help sports contribute to positive “educational outcomes,” the association says:
Included among these desirable educational outcomes are the instilment [sic] of the notion of citizenship, loyalty and school spirit, the building of a cohesive student body, the promotion of amateurism by drawing athletes from the school’s population only which, in turn, discourages an overemphasis on sports, avoids “team shopping,” keeps in proper perspective the relationships among student-athletes and coaches and secures role models for other students.
The state budget also allows homeschooled students to fully participate in Ohio’s Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program. The program allow students to enroll in college courses while in high school for both high-school and college credit. The state pays for the cost of the courses.
The program is already open to private-school students.
Good.
And why not?
The taxes paid by their parents support the public schools.
yep
Ping to metmom.
Then they should petition the government to waive all school taxes of any kind from homeschooling families.
They would go for that, right?
Why not the parents all pay taxes
I am getting increasingly cynical about high school and college athletics. Maybe it's time to sever the link and make club sports the baseline. Schools could still have intramural sports as a part of the PE program, but perhaps they're not the place for highly competitive athletics.
And let the NFL and NBA run their own farm systems. College football and basketball jumped the shark a long time ago. Kudos to the remaining legitimate student athletes, but the saving remnant has perhaps dropped below critical mass.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association isn’t thrilled about the changes.
Probably cause the home schoolers will do better than the regulars and that will PO the coaches and NEA
Virgin kids! Fresh meat for the bi-and transsexual locker rooms. Trust my kids to liberal teachers and their progeny.
No thanks. Take a pass.
Marvelous... Homeschoolers hooking up to the soccer mom welfare train. I don’t care where you school your kids, but if you want them to play games or to be in clubs, open up your own damned checkbook and pay for it yourself. It’s not my job to entertain and recreate the kids you brought into the world.
Parents will have to pay the same fees and public school kids, so the will be opening their own damn wallets.
Oh, yea, and the HS parents are already paying public school taxes.....
Orangedog, you’re junkyard dog ... down boy ...
Excuse me.
Public schools are funded by tax payer money - mine included. Even if you don’t have kids you pay.
So a parent with home school or private school kids living in that public school area is supporting that system with their taxes. So why shouldn’t their kids be able to play on that tax payer supported team?
I noticed two items in the law that I agreed with 1st - Only if the private school didn’t have that sport and 2nd That the parents would have to pay any and all fees the public school kids had to pay.
Homeschoolers already do that, by paying the property taxes that support local schools. Homeschoolers don't get a tax waiver just because Junior learns his algebra at the dinner table.
That’s a silly statement. Academically the home schoolers would likely do better, but there’s no indication they would athletically.
They definitely should have had a home-schooled fourth grader write that press release.
I don’t have a problem with this at all. Kids will still have to try out so only the best will make the teams anyway. It will make the teams stronger.
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