[votemout]

I know we have a lot of home shoolers, so here goes. What is the basis for a homeschooled child to participate in any student activities at a public or private school? Shouldn’t they be registered as a student at that school and attend classes?

[Politicalmom]

They are paying property taxes. They should be able to access the schools to whatever extent they wish.

[blu]

I found this article, from 2008.

“According to The Homeschooling Book of Answers by Linda Dobson, 24 states allow homeschoolers to participate in interscholastic sports (one school competing against another school). Those states that accommodate homeschoolers include: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington state, and Wyoming. Vermont allows homeschoolers to participate in individual sports, like golf and tennis, but not in team sports.”

The article goes on to advise folks to play on homeschool leagues, and the comments section talks about how these laws are interpreted loosely by local districts. IN the end, it’s the district who decides. So, politics as usual.

It is helpful, when one is requesting their child be allowed to partake of the buffet that is local education, to remember..homeschoolers pay the same taxes as public schoolers...pure profit for the local districts.

[Sopater]

What is the basis for a homeschooled child to participate in any student activities at a public or private school? Shouldn’t they be registered as a student at that school and attend classes?

Should they pay taxes to public schools if they're not registered and attend classes?

The private schools should be able to do as they please, however the public schools are owned by the poeple.

[JenB]

Private schools should get to make their own rules.

Public schools... well, we pay for ‘em, after all, so why not? Personally my kids will be kept far far away from anything to do with government schools including sports teams but other people make different choices. Often a school team is the only local team available to a kid so that makes it really hard to argue they shouldn’t be allowed to play. If the school team is the de facto community team, what’s a homeschooled kid to do?

[SECURE AMERICA]

No. They pay for the goverment schooling through their taxes even if they do not attend the government schools itself. If they are a resident,meet all other qualifications they get to play period.

[Mr. Lucky]

How about the fact that Florida law specifically grants them the right to play?