Posted on 05/25/2015 7:50:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISON — Critics are blasting Wisconsin legislators after the state's budget committee passed a surprise motion last week that would allow private, home-schooled and online charter students to participate in public school district athletics and activities.
The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee passed a motion early Wednesday morning that included the plan.
The plan wasn't addressed in the meeting.
"For that to be done in a sneaky, behind the scenes fashion and passed at 1:30 in the morning without any discussion ... that's a problem," said Larry Kaseman, executive director of the Wisconsin Parents Association.
While nonpublic school students in some cities are currently involved in activities or co-op sports teams, the provision would extend the opportunity to students across the state to be involved in their resident district's public school activities and athletics.
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Why shouldn’t they be allowed? They pay taxes too.
Exactly.
this
their parents pay taxes
You pay your school taxes so of course your children should have access. The vengeful school district administrators get paid a per diem for each child in their class rooms so they hate home schoolers
Follow the money and the greed
Interestingly, there are some experts here in New Jersey who can see the day when high school sports either disappear entirely or get scaled back to almost nothing. What's driving it here is that so many top athletes are playing on privately-run travel teams instead of playing for their high schools. It's most noticeable in baseball and soccer right now, but this trend is growing in other sports with every passing year.
Public schools “lose” Federal funding with each “missing” student, so they don’t want to “give” anything to non-public school “scabs.”
As an example of the importance of having kids’ butts in the classroom chair, here’s a 2011 story out of San Diego:
“.....The attendance-based funding formula puts a bounty on the heads of students, forcing schools to meticulously track their absences – placing dollar amounts next to their names. Number 114 is one of 358 students on a list of the chronically absent at Lincoln High. A student is considered chronically absent if he or she misses 10 percent or more of the 180-day school year.
At Ramona Unified, 473 chronically absent students cost the district $355,566.77 last year. Twenty-seven of them missed at least a quarter of the school year. Two were absent more than 100 days....”
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/27/chronically-absent-students-cost-county-schools-mi/
In my area, many sports like softball and soccer are run by the township independently of the public school, and as such are open to all residents.
How discriminatory of the public school bigots! These families pay school taxes, so this is the least the state can do for them, since they provide inferior education services.
“It’s most noticeable in baseball and soccer right now, but this trend is growing in other sports with every passing year. “
Same with hockey.
We have that here. They just cannot participate in the championship tournaments.
Club sports are broad at the base and in principle can offer a team for every kid who wants to play, and an appropriate competitive level for each team. Clubs can be very competitive and tryout based at the upper levels, but they offer open participation to beginners and weaker players as well. If enough come out to field eight boys basketball teams and four girls soccer teams, great. Clubs do this. The schools don't.
This is but one part of the entire 2015-17 budget, which naturally includes education, as with every state, the amount budgeted for education is 50%.
It lets it be known that (along with other education budget proposals) that Republicans are giving education back to the citizens.
This is silly. Most of Wisconsin already allows private school students to participate in sports, bands and other extracurricular school activities. I assume this law is just to make this existing policy uniform throughout the state. Rarely is there a cost because most school districts charge a fee for participation. And the schools can limit enrollment with tryouts.
“....Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Deputy Director Wade Labecki said members of the organization, which regulates high school sports, have voiced their frustration about the measure.
He said the association was developed to help students graduate on time, but fears that public school students who see home-schooled students playing on their teams would be less motivated to continue their education.
“The reason for sports in schools is to keep kids in school ... it’s the carrot they have to keep kids in school,” Labecki said. “This is a way to get them out the door and still play.”...
Not only do these people pay their taxes, but they save the schools money by educating their children elsewhere, lowering classroom size and teaching load.
I understand their concern, they don’t want a kid whose parents care so much abut their education to home or private school messing with the federal money they get for bodies in the classroom. Money that comes from taxpaying parents like the ones who homeschool.
Yea I get it .>sarc
However it seems no one, from schools to parent who home and private school their kids
so what is the motive of the Dem who added this?
Hope Sarah Palin gets the message.
How HORRIBLE that ALL students would get to participate in state athletic activities. It’s hard to believe that the cherished discrimination of those awful non-public school children by their “Progressive” cousins is being dismantled by that eeeeeeeevil Republican legislature. How sad.
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