(Virginia) Senate panel kills 'Tebow bill' - homeschoolers NOT allowed on public school sports teams

[SunSeeker]

170. It depends on your state. Usually it goes into a general fund, to be allocated to state services,

such as prisons, parks, colleges, tax subsidies for the rich, etc. Heck, some few pennies of it might even reach your local school. But where the parents' taxes DON'T go to--where NOBODY's taxes go to--is covering the cost of providing benefits to homeschoolers.

As I've tried to explain repeatedly in this thread, schools receive money from the state based on how many students actually attend the school (the point of the link you asked about). It doesn't matter to the school how much the kid's parents pay in property or income taxes since that is not how the school's budget amount is set.

So, if schools are already suffering with bare bones budgets that barely cover what the school needs to educate the students that ARE enrolled in that school, they certainly do not have the resources to pay for extracurricular activities of homeschoolers who are not enrolled students. Because they are not enrolled, homeschoolers who use sports facilities, etc. do not entitle the school to any extra money from the state under current state law.

That is why I have been saying repeatedly throughout this thread, homeschoolers need to change the law before they demand benefits from public schools. Otherwise, the schools run out of money for that activity and just cut it out altogether, like so many public schools are already doing. Then, NOBODY gets to have that benefit.