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« Unreasonable | Main | Open Up! » April 4, 2005Home-Schoolers Demand - And Should Get - Equal Access
"It's about equal access," said Mike Bell, a THEA lobbyist who teaches his kids at home. "This is about giving all Tennessee children equal access to publicly funded facilities and activities."This is good legislation. Parents who home-school don't get a tax break - they pay taxes to support their local public schools just like everyone else and, by homeschooling, actually reduce their local school district's expenses. (They also produce better-educated students, on average, then public schools do.) The legislation won't cost the public education establishment any money and will create a level playing field for all school-aged kids for extracurricular activities, no matter where they are schooled. Simple fairness demands passage of this legislation, sponsored in the state Senate by Sen. Jim Bryson and in the state House by Rep. Beth Harwell, who is running for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, and 21 co-sponsors. The legislation is Senate Bill 1356 and House Bill 1297. The Senate bill is on the April 6 agenda of the Senate Education Committee. Posted in Tennessee News
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As a parent who intends to begin homeschooling my kindergarten and pre-K 4 children this fall, this bill is of interest to me. But I must admit that I don't see what the concern is all about. Except for football and marching band, aren't there a plethora of other opportunities available for my children. If my son aspires to play soccer, there are plenty of travel teams to choose from. The same goes for baseball and basketball. Many college coaches scout these travel teams more intently than they do high school squads. If my son is interested in drama, there are several community theatre groups in the area. In fact, there are many outlets for artistic endeavors of every kind. In most cases, the opportunities outside of school are far more attractive than those available through the school system. Isn't this one of the pros of homeschooling in the first place? So could someone please explain to me what the big deal is? Posted by: Stephen Shirley at April 4, 2005 02:24 PMThis may be an attempt to market public education to homeschoolers. Maybe the public school kids are so overweight after eating public school meals and drinking Coke from school vending machines that these schools need fit-and-healthy home-school kids to win that junior high school football trophy. Posted by: george at April 4, 2005 06:20 PMPost a comment
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