Posted on 08/04/2015 1:17:36 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Homeschoolers in Wisconsin will soon be able to participate in public school sports, thanks to a new measure recently signed into law by Governor Scott Walker.
Previously, homeschooled students in Wisconsin were not allowed to play on public school sports teams. But Scott Woodruff of the Home School Legal Defense Association says the new law allows them to try out for teams at public schools.
“I think for many folks who were initially opposed to it, it was almost kind of a turf issue,” he says. “People thought, Okay, homeschool students might be part of our community, but they don’t attend this public school, so they can’t be on the team even though their parents fund the program through their tax dollars."
He says Governor Walker did veto a small section of the bill prohibiting school districts from being members of athletic associations that do not require member districts to comply with the law. That veto led to some confusion about what the law actually says.
“The necessary part of the bill was in paragraph A, where it says that a school board shall permit a homeschooled student to participate in sports,” the attorney explains. “So the part the governor vetoed was nonessential, but a couple of organizations misunderstood his veto and publicly said homeschoolers can’t play sports, which of course is wrong, and that created a lot of confusion.”
Wisconsin is now the 31st state to allow homeschoolers to play on public school teams.
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Or maybe knocked the hell out for being a wanker.
And there it is folks, it's "class" envy...thinking homeschoolers think of themselves as upper crust.
Your “hate” B.S. is tiresome.
Again, and I’ll type it really slowly this time because it’s you, one doesn’t have to hate the public schools to want to avail oneself of a better educational outcome via homeschooling.
They’re paying for the sports programs via property taxes, they should be allowed to take advantage of what they are paying for. Only socialists think you should have to pay for others without being able to avail yourself of what you are paying for.
Hey! humblegunner is a closet socialist, everyone!
Why don’t you trot over to your natural home at DU?
Whatever you say, Zippy.
Taxes and districts be damned, don’t expect little Fauntleroy
to be welcomed onto a team from a school that he has never attended.
A school team should consist of students at that school.
You don’t get out much, do you?
From what I’ve seen, kids from a multiplicity of school environments, public, private, and homeschooled, get along just fine.
I guess if you raise your kids to be tribalist thugs it could be a problem, but I haven’t seen that in the culture around me.
Plenty of kids have been HS'd and played on their district's JH's and HS's...and they were welcomed.
Not just boys...either. Lot's of girls too!!
Ummm...brother...you are wrong on this.
He’s a closet socialist. He wants the homeschool families to subsidize government school sports teams without being able to participate.
You have it sooo backwards
It is the public schools who talent scout the talented homeschool kids for their sports teams.
“A school team should consist of students at that school.”
Which includes homeschooled students in that district.
You’re playing administrivia and losing.
ditto Colorado
It is a school team, not a district team. If it is was district team then any child who lives in the district, including children who are homeschooled or who attend private schools or schools outside the district should be able to play.
HG...is a stand-up guy.
He's just a bit grumpy here.....
Hell....I wanted to @#%$ most everyone the other day....
“It is a school team, not a district team. “
more administrivia. Schools take kids from a particular geographic area - some places call this a “school district”, others may call it something else.
Some homeschool kids can participate in band, or other extracurricular activities. They are administratively part of the school. Problem solved.
administrivia ?
Whether someone on a school team is actually a student at the school isn’t just administrivia.
What about students who are skipping class or carrying a 1.0 grade point average. Or high school dropouts.
“Don’t worry about actually going to class kid, you live in the district and you can dunk so sure you can be on the basketball team”
“Whether someone on a school team is actually a student at the school isn’t just administrivia.”
Sure it is.
It’s exactly that. Homeschoolers are often administratively attached to a public school so they can participate in extracurricular activities - or say, take drivers education, or play football.
Some kids are sick and get homework from school - but are still students at that school.
It’s all administrivia. You’re hanging on a meaningless distinction. If you work at home does that mean you aren’t employed by a company? THere are many silly parallels.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why this raises any objection whatsoever, but obviously it does. The mother of the semi-beautiful girl who gets edged out of being a cheerleader by a homeschooler will object, I can see that. The father of the third string kicker might be annoyed that homeschooled Jaclowneon pushed him down to JV. But so what?
Sure it’s complicated, but it’s not the kids fault he likes sports and his mother is a type-A know-it-all that keeps him home.
I don’t need alinsky tactics to show your arguments are nonsense... simple logic does that.
I would agree with you if the home school family weren’t required to support the school financially.
Under your interpretation, you are espousing taxation without representation, only because the child isn’t incarcerated at the state facility for 6 or 7 hours a day.
“Just seems like folks that disdain a whole system ought not to be able to pick and choose parts they like.”
Can they choose no to pay for it? You’re kids leeched off people like this and you had no problem with it.
You’re a parasite.
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“Yeah, I’m not responsible for the tax codes or structures.”
Actually you are. You were just too lazy to actually do anything about it.
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My property taxes pay for my local high schools but I can’t just walk in and start using the sports facilities because of that.
This has nothing to do with taxation without representation because there are many people who pay property taxes who don’t get to benefit from the school facilities eg. people without kids.
My taxes also go towards public universities in my state. Should the “you don’t have to be a student” rule apply to college sports teams at publicly funded colleges as well?
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