'Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House

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128. Childless property owners pay school taxes too

Now, this is why this is a bad idea: Schools receive funding based on enrollment, and part of the money received goes to the sports program. Homeschoolers by definition aren't enrolled, so the school receives no funding for them. If they're playing ball, they're using tax dollars but the government won't reimburse the school because the kid isn't enrolled.

Now, if they can figure out some kind of a "sports only enrollment" setup that gets the school the money to pay for the homeschooler's spot on the team it would be okay, but fundie homeschool parents wouldn't go for that because Jesus told them not to affiliate themselves with heathen socialist educational systems. (Of course, the football is still going to be covered with evolution cooties but those ones are okay.)