HBO Schedule:: REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL ’05 101
My homeschooled sister, Sandra, clued me in to this program on Byrant Gumbel’s Real Sports, on HBO, listed under “Current Schedule”:
With 13 Sports Emmy(R) Awards and five consecutive years of winning the Sports Journalism honor, Real Sports is television’s most honored sports magazine show. This edition’s segments include… a report on home-schooled athletes and their efforts to be part of public school sports teams….
Updated 9/4: If I’m reading the site information correctly, this aired August 25:
Nowhere to Play
A home-schooled education has become an increasingly popular option for American families, comprising well over one million of the country’s student age population. But this alternative route to public, private, and parochial school offers little opportunity to participate in competitive sports. Home-school families across the country have lobbied for their children to be allowed to join the athletic teams of local public schools, arguing they deserve as much since they pay school taxes. But many school districts disagree, arguing that issues of academic eligibility and additional financial strains complicate inclusion. Legality varies from state to state: Some authorize the practice, others leave it to the discretion of the individual district, and a large number staunchly oppose it. REAL SPORTS correspondent Frank Deford talks with home-school families, as well as local school districts, to hear both sides of this burning issue.
Correspondent: Frank Deford
Producer: Amani Martin.
Has anyone seen the segment – or have any other information about it? Does anyone know where the families were interviewed for this piece? I find it a little curious that we haven’t heard more about this “burning issue.”
Helen
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david
My opinion is at:
http://www.homeedmag.com/blogs/newscomm/?p=115
I am one of the families interviewed. It is a burning issue. In Illinois, it is allowed, but each school board gets to decide if these kids will be allowed to play at each individual school district. Six miles from where I live, my daughter could play sports at the local high school, but not my district. Is that fair? Do I not pay the same taxes as the homeschoolers in that other district? Our high school will not let my homeschooled daughter play, because they do not believe that homeschooled children are educated, and that they are not well rounded. My daughter is much better educated, which I can prove, and I think much more well rounded. But until homeschoolers unite together and take a stance on this kind of prejudice, people will continue to think this way. No matter how many facts I presented to prove our kids are well educated, they opted not to believe it. We as homeschoolers are a strong force, but we do not back each other in these issues, so we look weak, and these schools think they can walk all over us. If we stood together they would know we are a force, and they would quit playing with us and our children. It is not right what they are getting away with. Homeschoolers, quit being afraid of government intervention, stand up and be heard, unite, and make them listen to us as homeschoolers who have a right to educate our children the way we want and to still participate in what we want!
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