CitizenLink.Org – 0811/10 - A Louisiana school system has a message for home-schoolers: “Stay at home.”
Five Ouachita Parish high schools have banned home-schoolers from participating in athletic programs – despite a law recently signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal that gives these students the chance to play public school sports. The law leaves it up to principals to make the local decision.
Twenty-two states allow home-school students to participate in public school activities.
Randy Hammet, athletic director for Ouachita Parish Schools, said, “When polled last spring by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, it was overwhelming, 200-and-something to five against participation by home-school students.
He added that letting home-schoolers play would be unfair to the public school students. Read Full Story
