home school athletes

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Are there any schools that allow home schooled students to participate in their school athletic programs?

 

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I believe in our district the student has to be enrolled in at least 1 class at our public school..... usually band or PE will do.

 

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I know that the Bloom Carroll LSD allows home schooled students to participate. I know of a family that the son became a captain of the s o c c e r team and went to the states and the daughter is the star of the swimming program. They both are doing great and fitting in with the rest of the students.

 

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Just asking, don't get your panties in a bunch. If the school is not good enough how is it their sports is?

 

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You shouldn't assume that the only reason someone chooses to homeschool is because the school isn't "good enough". There's many reasons why people chose to homeschool, and the least of them all is that the school isn't "good enough".

Also, panties are free of all "bunches"!! :

 

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We homeschool our 13 year old DD, she has been involved in travel ball for three years. TB and pitching lessons are part of gym class , also being around some of the umps and rival coaches gives her a chance to improve her social skills LOL. factoryrat

 

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Doomsdad 12 - which school district does your DD play for?

 

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still looking

 

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Not sure if you got your answer, but under OHSAA Bylaws 4-3-1 ?Exception #6. Any student that is Home Schooled, is allowed to play if they are in that School District. Contact the AD and make sure they handle 3-5-1 Eligility Certificate. ? Hope that helps. ?See You Sunday.

 

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Just asking, don't get your panties in a bunch. If the school is not good enough how is it their sports is?

How can you even put sports in the same catagory as academics? :-/Just because a school has a great athletic program has NOTHING to do with their academics!

 

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I have coached five home schooled kids and three played in college and only one played any ball in the school district she lived in.

She had already completed ALL of her high school credits at 16 years old and was attending Miami Hamilton or Middletown and had enough credits to be a sophmore in college when she went to college. Yes she was a great pitcher and an awesome hitter.

You do not have to play high school ball to get into college ball...however you have an advantage playing select ball and this is where her college coach saw her play and at some show cases.

All of our home schooled kids were good kids and this is how the parents chose to do it and they all functioned normally and I have attended two of their marriages as well as the other kids i.e public school kids and private school kids...they are all of our kids however on some days it was difficult to tell them apart. Just kidding!

Howard

 

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Great point Howard !

 

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as a teacher, there is nothing wrong with keeping your child at home, regardless of what district you might live in...you know what kinds of kids go to public schools? you don't want to know...do you know what teenage girls (some, not all, so don't bite my head off OFC peeps!) are doing during/after school? can't even type it here...

good luck to those that have patience/time to home school...yes, your kid might have the stigma of not being social enough (isn't that always the rub about home school, that a kid can somehow not be able to function socially, when, if they were at a public school, they are taught to be sarcastic show-offs and wanna-be's) or not educated enough (please, schools today are simply overcrowded and test-riddled) which is of course a negative way to attack something that just might actually work...

AND they get to play softball...rock n roll!!!

 

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SBFAMILY

You are correct that the OHSAA allows for home schooled kids to play sports. It is left up to each individual school district if they allow it or not. I know of 2 school districts that do not allow it and one, Bloom Carroll, that allow it. To me it seems like a no brainer. The athlete gets to compete in high school and the school district gets the funds for the athlete, even though they do not step foot in the school. This not only applies to sports, but all other school activites. What I am running into is that the school is saying that they do not allow it. When asked why, their response is, "we never have." Their other response has been that no other schools allow it. That is what prompted this post. I am looking for school district that allow home schooled kids to particpate in sports or other after school sponsored events. I have no opinion as to the merits of home schooling vs. traditional schooling.

HITTER, I agree that for the most part you need to play travelball if you are interested in playing in college. I am sure that there are some exceptions. However, being both a travelball coach and a high school coach, I have found that there are more emotions involved for playing for your local high school team than a travelball team. I was fortunate to have wrestled and play football in college. For me, I have many more memories of high school ball than college ball.

 

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No other schools allows this is a false statement . I will give you some names and schools around here, when I check this out with my contacts tonight at the sectional games. ?I know of a kid that plays football that is home schooled. So I'm sure I can come up with a list for you. ?Legally ?if you ?are paying taxes in that school district this could be a slippery slope for the high school to say NO. I'm sure Joe A or some other Lawyer can give us legal grounds ?in this area. I would be shocked if someone hasn't sued and won this one , knowing how everyone sues for any reason.

 

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I heard our district allows it, but you must be enrolled in one type of class, not sure what class that is. Sort of would be backwards from "Home Schooled" wouldn't it....

We had one girl in our rec league that I asked the mom what high school would she be in? and that's how I found out the info.....

the Mom wasn't going to do it as she wanted to teach the child all her classes at home....

 

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Section 3. Enrollment and Attendance
4-3-1 All students participating in a school sponsored sport must be enrolled in and attending fulltime
in accordance with all duly adopted Board of Education or similar governing board
policies of that school.

EXCEPTION 6: A student who is home schooled and is enrolled in a member school in
accordance with the partial enrollment policy of a Board or Education or similar governing
board may be eligible at the school where the student is enrolled and attending. Note:A student
entering a member school from a home school must do so at the beginning of the
school year after having been home schooled for at least one calendar year. Failure to meet
this one-year provision requires the student to be enrolled for a minimum of one grading
period before the student can be declared eligible.

 

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I am all for home schooling. I home schooled 2 of my children for a couple of years. But, I saw these articles, and wanted to share them. Apparently Dayton Jefferson had 2 student athletes that were ineligible, but playing. Now they have had to forfeit basketball games and wrestling matches, just as the were on their way through the state tournaments. One article says the basketball player was home schooled, the other article says that both athletes were associated with the Miami Valley Career Technical Center.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/co...schools/2008/02/27/ddn022808jeffersonweb.html

http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/co...schools/2008/02/28/ddn022808jeffersonweb.html

My only point is this. Be very careful when it comes to eligibility.

 

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I have seen some Home schoolers and they don't seem to mix well with public school students. Always standing by them selves, while the rest are mingling with each other. However, I will say the home schoolers seem to be very intelligent students but out of touch with what is expected of them when it comes to committing to a high school sport.

 

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This is a great idea I believe I finally found my calling. I will be taking enrollment next fall at the Big Daddy Home School of Bat Doctoring and all Around Cheating. We wont be focusing on the reading wrighting and arithmetic. We will be focusing on the gray areas of life! Such as how to use HGH and get away with it. How to sucessfully load your bat, and how to successfully notching the raised seems of the softball to gain 2 to 4 inches of movement on your pitches. (why else do you think teams bring the ball to the dug out?)

Enrollment fee is 10 grean a year. But for you Johnnies and Lady Knights its on me!