[Future Snake Eater]

YOu can't really choose to keep your kids out of the public school, and then pick and choose which programs you want them to participate in.

Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them.

[Chiapet]

"Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them."

Hah. I only wished that was the way it worked. That means that all the tax dollars I contribute to government welfare programs would be refunded to me because I'm not a recipient of welfare benefits. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen...

[Clara Lou]

YOu can't really choose to keep your kids out of the public school, and then pick and choose which programs you want them to participate in.
Actually, you can in some cases. Public school systems can provide services to private school students provided that those public school services rendered don't establish or support a particular religion.

[Non-Sequitur]

Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them.

I didn't call the police or the fire department once last year. Can I get my tax dollars that were spent on them refunded?

[Alberta's Child]

I think the argument you are presenting here is not really applicable. If the act of paying school taxes somehow entitles one to use whatever school facilities/programs he or she wishes, then the school would have no right to exclude adults from their band, either.

I'm usually the first one to stand up for the rights of parents who homeschool their kids, but in this case I'm on the side of the school. The kid is either a student of the school, or she's not. She can't have it both ways.

[NCLaw441]

You said: Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them.



Just like single and childless (child-free?) couples get a portion of their tax money back. Kind of like how I get my portion of public broadcasting tax money back...

[discostu]

You pay taxes into the school system even if you don't have kids, much less have kids not in the school system. So that logic isn't logical. I'm all for home schooling, thinks it's great, but I think part of home schooling mean no school activities. You're in or you're out. If you went to school X you wouldn't be eligible to be in the marching band for school Y, well home is a school X and she wants in Y's band. Seems pretty universally applicable to me, if you don't go to the school in question, regardless of where you do go to school, you cannot be on any of the teams sports or acedemic; no football team, no chear squad, no marching band, no theater group, no chess team. Not for kids that go to a different school in the same system, not for kids that go to a public school in a different system, not for kids that go to private or charter schools, and not for home schooled kids. It's perfectly logical and perfectly fair.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them.

They already did...sort of...via the "Per Child Tax Credit".

Being a childless bachelor, I should get my tax dollar spent on that child's education refunded to me.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them."

GAME, SET, AND MATCH!

[EDINVA]

We chose to home school two of our kids and in making that decision knew that they would not be able to participate in the public school extracurricular programs. Those are the decisions home-schooling parents make. Let these parents live with their decisions, and all their consequences. We continue to pay our school taxes. So do all the seniors and single people who live here.

[SoVaDPJ]

"Fine, then they should have their tax dollars spent on education refunded to them."

With interest.

I agree, if she's not part of the school, she's not part of the band. And there's no reason her parents should pay a nickel toward the public schools. I have no kids in school, but I would be willing to make a decent monetary contribution for a home schoolers' band.