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

[SunSeeker]

175. I'm not wrong. Schools are funded based on attendance, not what the parents pay in taxes.

I'm not sure what you mean by "star" funds--I'll assume you mean state funds. What I am saying, which is what the law is in CA, is that a certain amount (in CA it is $40/day or $7,200/year assuming no absences) is allocated to each school for each student that is enrolled.

Using your numbers, when the parents pay that $110,000.00 to the education fund, it doesn't all go to the local school automatically. Let's say for the sake of your example, that the local district consists of one local school, and that school gets $1,000 for each student attending per year. Assuming there is only one kid per "normal public school parent" in that 100-parent district, that means the district only gets 100 kids x $1,000 per kid or $100,000. That $10,000 sitting in the education fund from the 10 homeschooler parents does not go to the school. The only way that local school can get that $10,000 is for it to get 10 more students.

What happens to that $10,000? It goes to other schools or other districts who do have the student numbers to qualify for that money. There's nothing "nefarious" or illegal about it. That's just how school funding works.