home schooled eligibility

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Here's a question posed to me by a friend. My daughter is home schooled, can she play HS ball next year for the community's high school where she lives ? He is getting various responses from different ad's . Thanks everyone.

 

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This is from the OHSSA :

If you are home schooled and enrolled in an
OHSAA member school in accordance with the
school?s board-adopted partial enrollment policy,
you may be eligible for interscholastic athletics
participation at the school where you are enrolled
and attending.
? To be eligible, you must enter the OHSAA member
school from the home school at the beginning
of the school year after having been home
schooled for at least one calendar year.
? Failure to meet the one-year provision will
require you to be enrolled for a minimum of one
grading period before eligibility can be granted.

 

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I home schooled my kids for a couple of years & although mine were too young for HS sports, there were some in our home school group who did. Some even took things like gym, art or music.

This was about 15+ years ago though...it probably depends on the district. It would be good to know what rights you have as a home schooler in the state.

 

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The key is that it is up to the school district to accept the student into the partial enrollment program. From what i understand they are not mandated to do so. My wife and I home school all of our children. We have researched this somewhat as our kids are approaching the junior high level. If you happen to live in the school district that meets the academic and athletic standards you are looking for, I would suggest talking with someone from the board of education to see what that districts policy is. If not, then a neighboring school district that has open enrollment may be an option. I have not heard of a school district accepting a student into their partial enrollment program under open enrollment though.

 

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Mrsfactoryrat is the person to ask, I'd shoot her a PM, she will know.

 

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The key is that it is up to the school district to accept the student into the partial enrollment program. From what i understand they are not mandated to do so. My wife and I home school all of our children. We have researched this somewhat as our kids are approaching the junior high level. If you happen to live in the school district that meets the academic and athletic standards you are looking for, I would suggest talking with someone from the board of education to see what that districts policy is. If not, then a neighboring school district that has open enrollment may be an option. I have not heard of a school district accepting a student into their partial enrollment program under open enrollment though.

this statement is pretty acurate with what I've experienced when my oldest was HS aged our district allowed them to do sports as long as they took two minor classes at the school. when the next child was HS aged they had changed the policy to needing two majors-(math,Science, etc.). now with the youngest being HS aged they've changed the policy again and they are not allowed to play period. all neighboring school districts are the same. She has however been pitching BP at almost all of them and is glad she dont have to play for them, she really hasn't felt that she has missed anything - she went last week and practiced with a college team and she didn't look much different than any of them -she's 16.

 

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Centerburg forfeited 4 girls basketball games and all of their football games after the fact due to a misinterpretation of the rules regarding two home schooled / on-line partial students.

I'd check with the OHSAA to be safe.