Should Homeschooled Kids Play High School Sports?

Oh, that was bragging?

 

Sure seemed like it. It clearly gave you validation that you found worth sharing, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it.

Anyhow, where are your stats for how most home-school kids are socially retarded and scarred for life?

Curious to find out where you learned your latest batch of knowledge.

Did you go to college? Still haven't answered that one, have you?

 

link?

 

I've learned this batch of knowledge from interacting with home schooled kids. They're socially recluse. There's of course always exceptions to every rule.

I did go to college. I have my AA. Decided not to further my education because I got a job at a young age that is setting me up for a solid retirement, great pay and paid for over $200,000 in medical expenses. I have plenty of friends who went the University route and they are in over their head in student loans and can't find a job.

Is that question some kind of way to look down at me?

 

OK, a kid goes to Valley Catholic that doesn't have a golf team. Can kid play on BHS golf team? Can they try out for the school musical, school play, how about student gov't?

Just don't get how a kid (or parent) choose not to be part of a school and then wants to represent that school on a sports team.

Club sports, YMCA, all types of different organization offer sports to high school kids. It's not like the kid can't find a place to play sports. Why should he/she be allowed to wear high school colors and represent school they don't attend?

 

Yes, he can as long as he lives in the Beaverton HS boundaries. They can wear the HS colors because their parents are considered taxpayers if they reside within the school boundary.

 

Impossible to quantify whether someone is socially awkward. Its one of those things you know from being around home schooled kids. Many that I've talked to wish they would have been able to do the public school route.

 

Good for you, Zags. You seem to be a decent guy from what HCP has told me. Not sure why you try to argue things that you don't have a clue about, but I suppose I can be accused of the same thing at times.

 

You sound sure of yourself but I highly doubt a kid from a private school can try out for a public school team (if their school doesn't have a comparable program)

And again how far does this go, if they pay taxes can kid try for the high school play, for student body president?

There is no way parents and students allow a kid who doesn't go to the school to take a spot on a team away from a student who goes to the school. Don't know for sure but I'll bet your San Antonio/Blazer tickets on it.

 

A lottttt of home school kids are socially awkward. It's a stereotype for sure, but often times stereotypes are based in truth, and this one is often the case. At least if we're talking doing homeschool for a long time.

 

Tualatin HS has had two kids from private schools on their HS golf team over the past three years, because Horizon Christian doesn't offer golf.

You can argue with me on this one, or you can just accept what I'm saying, because I know what I'm talking about.

I suggest calling a local private school, saying your kid wants to go there, and asking whether or not they can play their preferred sport (golf is a good one) for the HS in their district.

 

I spent time around a lot of home schooled kids in theater when I was a kid and in debate when I was at PCC. My impressions:

1. They're usually pretty sharp. Well read.

2. They don't know how to be around other kids. They're awkward. Their social skills are lacking a bit. I don't think that has to be the case for all home schooled kids if their parents made an effort to get them out of the house and around other kids, but most of the kids I met who were home schooled were definitely socially awkward.

 

I don't know papag. I would like to take your word for it, but some of your logic in this threads sounds like you are just throwing stuff out.

Like you saying the reasons public school kids can't play at private schools is because of some taxes vs. tuition calculation? How about it doesn't matter what the tuition costs are or how much taxes one pays, they are a private school and set their own rules with sports teams. Pretty sure the gov't can't tell a private school to allow kids outside their student body to play on their teams . . . regardless of tuition costs.

So forgive me if I can't just buy into what you are saying. But I'm curious enough to look it up when I got time . . . not now, there is a Blazer game on.

 

I know a kid whose parents decided to home school him because he was a social outcast at his school and constantly getting picked on to the point of anxiety and depression. So does home school create (some) kids that are antisocial or do antisocial kids tend to be home schooled?

 

Those are OSAA rules. Look them up for yourself, call the schools, do whatever you want. Or, you can keep flaming me for no reason in this thread.

 

That's flaming you? Damn papag, you should see how you respond to posts.

I was trying to say I respectfully can't just take your word on this, but I could be wrong. Not challenging you for no reason, it's not making sense to me and I'm trying to explain why it doesn't make sense.

I might call a private school, but I don't need OSAA to tell me that tax dollars does not give you rights in private schools. Tell me again how paying taxes determines if one can play sports at a private school?

 

I never said that. I said that that a home-schooled kid can't play sports at a private school that is OSAA sanctioned, unless the kid is enrolled in the private school.

The taxpaying issue deals with access to public schools for sports, not private schools. Sorry if I wasn't clear. A home-schooled kid in Tualatin can't play a sport a Horizon Christian unless they are enrolled in the school, but they can play at Tualatin HS without being enrolled in school there.

 

Alright, well you posted long enough for me to get a read that you are very confident about this. I'm skeptical, but will back off because I'm just applying my logic to the situation without really knowing the rules . . .And really don't care enough to call a school or look it up.

 

Insecure parents "home-school" their children. It's a mental disorder, a phobia of not having complete control over others.

The children rarely have a choice.