oldkodger Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) The School board for the public school district has to approve the curriculum of the homeschool student before they can participate. If school systems don't want home schoolers to participate all they have to do is reject all home school curriculum. I don't understand why they SHOULD be allowed to in the first place. If precious little johnny is too good to go to public school then he is too good to play ball for em too..JMO! I went to public school for 13 years & was grateful for the opportunity to play sports. I pay taxes like everyone else. My little Johnny missed 50+ days due to severe allergies to mold. Mold that is all in the public school 2 miles from my house. Next county over is zoned. Our school said they would have to get bids blah blah...to TRY & fix the issue by the next school year. I would imagine that if you couldn't sleep at night because you can hear little Johnny struggling to breath, you might consider homeschooling! If you follow my posts, you know I love high school sports & would love my little Johnny to have the opportunity that my tax dollars affords everyone else's little Johnny to have. JMO! Edited November 30, 2014 by oldkodger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTRok Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 It a no win argument most do not want them due to the stereotype. Then you throw in Tim Tebow, Jason Williams and Taber Spani just to name a couple of home school athletes. It mostly boils down to a bunch of closed minded people making decisions and assumptions about people they know nothing about. We just moved to TN from NC a couple of months ago, we home schooled our children for two yeas best decision we ever made. Older son wanted to go back to public school for high school and younger one decided too as well. The area of NC we were in just north of Charlotte had a solid athletic program with basketball boys and girls, football, softball, baseball and volleyball. We play against other home schools, private and some public. More and more home school kids are going to college to play ball Liberty University has several home school kids. LU host a very large home school basketball tournament every years with more than a 100 teams. They appear to be using a lessor known market. A lot of people holler if little home school Johnny/Jannie is to good to go to our school they don't need to play our sports. Well that's fine just give them the tax money the school would receive for them and call it done. Ten states currently force public schools to allow homeschoolers access to classes or sports part-time. These states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, and Washington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trebs Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Ten states currently force public schools to allow homeschoolers access to classes or sports part-time. These states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, and Washington Tennessee is not included on your list. Do you think Tennessee's law does not require public schools to allow homeschoolers to participate? The way I read the law, Tennessee public schools who are members of TSSAA must allow homeschoolers to try out. Unless I missed it, no-one else has mentioned homeshoolers playing for a public school outside the two I listed in my first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTRok Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I've lived in TN for two months I have no idea what TN does or requires for home school. If that is the law then I would think no option exist but to allow them. If they're not it will take someone pushing it to make it happen. The info I posted came for a 2011 report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old24eagle Posted December 8, 2014 Report Share Posted December 8, 2014 I went to public school for 13 years & was grateful for the opportunity to play sports. I pay taxes like everyone else. My little Johnny missed 50+ days due to severe allergies to mold. Mold that is all in the public school 2 miles from my house. Next county over is zoned. Our school said they would have to get bids blah blah...to TRY & fix the issue by the next school year. I would imagine that if you couldn't sleep at night because you can hear little Johnny struggling to breath, you might consider homeschooling! If you follow my posts, you know I love high school sports & would love my little Johnny to have the opportunity that my tax dollars affords everyone else's little Johnny to have. JMO! First of all everyone else don't pay taxes which really ticks me off...but that's a different subject for a different forum. I hate to sound unsympathetic and I hate the situation you're in, but if allergies are that bad exactly what sport could he play anyway. Also don't know you're situation but sometimes kids are just allergic to school. What school system would not be forced to remove mold from their school buildings? Back to the original argument. Homeschool kids can not be required to meet the same criteria that the rest of the kids are. Coach cant monitor their grades and behavior at school. Sorry about you're situation but sometimes things don't go smooth as you would like. The biggest problems in the world today stem from everyone thinking the rest of the world should conform to meet their needs because they want to be different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucvol Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 In UC I know 2 really good athletes who are home schooled and were denied the chance to participate in UC football. I don/t know for sure but I think it had something to do with disciplinary control over students at any school sponsored event. The school wouldn't have any control over kids that could do something that brings negative attention and consequences to our school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trebs Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Still surprised not to hear of at least one other homeschooler playing at a TSSAA school besides the two in Wilson County. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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