Regarding your concerns about the Subway contest that excludes home schools from contest eligibility, Scholastic and Subway apologize to all individuals who have taken offense at this. Our intention was never to make independent schooled children feel discriminated against or excluded from this specific promotion. Throughout the course of the year Scholastic runs a number of contests and sweepstakes that are open to all teachers and students. The eligibility of this contest in particular was solely put in place to award a large group of children with the grand prize of $5,000 worth of athletic equipment. We do however understand how home- schooled children could benefit from this type of prizing and will make sure eligibility is open to everyone in future promotions. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure a similar situation does not happen in the future.
They go on to say that all comments regarding this contest should be directed to Scholastic and they give that address. Since Scholastic works with schools and not homeschools, that might explain what was going on with this contest.
We *always* have a person in charge of selling Scholastic items to our support group! Scholastic is a big resource for homeschoolers!
This is just astonishing.