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

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171. You should have access if you pay a fee to cover the costs--like you do in NH.

The problem--one of the many problems--with this Tebow bill is it does not require the homeschooler parents to pay any extra fee to cover the cost to the school of providing the homeschoolers the benefits.

No one here is saying "the problem of underfunded schools is because of homeschoolers." No one here has framed it that way.

Schools are underfunded because the right wing hates public schools. They want that portion of our taxes that goes to public schools to instead go to each parent to spend as they see fit, which would then be diverted to religious and private schools, leaving public schools to die. The right hates public schools because it exposes their kids to leftwing thought--their kids might actually start to think for themselves--and get out of their parents right wing religious straightjacket.

There's a really good article on it on Alternet.com:

http://www.alternet.org/story/154312/why_teaching_people_to_think_for_themselves_is_repugnant_to_religious_zealots_and_rick_santorum/

Yes, I know, you're a progressive, and I am sure you tried to teach your kids to think for themselves and tought them facts instead of racist propaganda and religious dogma. But the right wing uses the existence of you few progressive homeschoolers to say not all homeschoolers are right wing or religious and therefore all homeschoolers should all get tax money.

Our tax money, instead of going to public schools--the ONLY path out of poverty--will go to religious indoctrination. Public schools will die on the vine, and with them class mobility in America. So, I am very protective of public schools. I am not attacking you, I am just saying you have to come up with a better law so that public schools don't lose out if homeschoolers want to take advantage of public school benefits.