This is a good article that explains homeschooler participation in sports in public schools. If you have experiences this year relating to this new law please write me and let me know good or bad so that we can pass the information on to other families!--Tabitha
http://www.news-bulletin.com/sports/72673-07-11-07.html
Home-schoolers allowed one sport
Impact new law will have is unknown
Jason W. Brooks News-Bulletin Staff Writer; jbrooks@news-bulletin.com
A new law passed by the New Mexico Legislature in its 2007 regular session allows home-schooled athletes to participate in one sport per school year.
Senate bill 1098 permits home-schooled athletes to participate in "one school district athletic activity at the public school in the attendance zone in which the student resides," in accordance with New Mexico Activities Association guidelines, the bill states.
After a parent meeting for athletics held recently, former Belen High School athletic director Robert Chavez met briefly with the parents of a handful of home-schooled athletes. He informed them of the new law, as little legislation had previously addressed home-school participation in high school athletics.
"This doesn't hurt a kid who tries out for a team and doesn't make it," said Chavez. "Home-schooled parents and kids only need to choose a sport if they make the team."
The law also states it is a school district's responsibility to verify academic eligibility. A new edition of the New Mexico Activities Association handbook, posted on the Web site www.nmact.org, states eligibility "must be verified by the public school's athletic director at the same time all students are ruled eligible or ineligible for athletic participation."
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What is the rationale for this restriction for home school children? Is it a budgetary issue? Do home school parents pay less taxes?
There is no rationale behind it-except the schools get money for number of 'butts in the seats' homeschoolers who play sports but do not attend the school are not giving the school any money BUT we do not pay less taxes, we do not get any tax breaks for homeschooling so there really in the end is no rationale behind this. Some States do allow homeschoolers to participate in certain school activities as well as sports it just so happens that New Mexico is not one of those States.
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