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Homeschoolers & Sports

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Interesting article from ESPN: “With action sports now an estimated $20 billion global business, and sponsors providing substantial salaries to young talent in an effort to lock up the next generation of stars, a growing number of athletes in surfing, skateboarding, BMX, motocross and snowboarding have discovered that their career aspirations conflict with school....
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Playing School Sports?

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Playing School Sports?

LEBANON, Ohio — Kelly and April Kamentz would like to see all of their six children play sports on Lebanon schools teams. But the 19-year residents of the district may not get that chance because their children are homeschooled, and like other Warren County schools that have high “partial enrollment” requirements, Lebanon requires student-athletes...
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Sailor Abby Sunderland Heading Home

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Sailor Abby Sunderland Heading Home

Sixteen-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland is homeward bound — though her plane flight back to California isn’t the homecoming she originally imagined when she set off in hopes of sailing around the world. About two weeks after her rescue at sea, Sunderland departed Sunday from the French island of Reunion, off the southeastern coast of...
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Young Sailor Heading Home

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In an AP Interview titled US teen sailor unfazed by ordeal Jeffrey Schaeffer reports “Rescued Teen Sailor Hopes to Try Again”: PARIS (AP) — Yes, she’s 16, but Abby Sunderland says she knew what she was doing when she tried to sail around the world alone, and was prepared when it all went wrong...
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Solo Teen Sailor

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According to a news story in the Los Angeles Times, a French fishing boat was plowing through the southern Indian Ocean late Friday to rescue 16-year-old Abby Sunderland from her storm-damaged sailboat in what will most likely be the end of her attempt to sail around the world alone. A spokesman expected rescuers to...
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Homeschooling is just right

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An article on the Tampa Bay Online’s sports section offers a look at an exceptional athlete: No matter where Max del Monte attended school, Chamberlain High track coach Bill Strack is fairly certain his 16-year-old prodigy would be exactly where he is today – the fastest high school sophomore in the U.S. for the...
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Homeschoolers and IL School Sports Policy

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In a short piece in the Daily Herald we learn the Central Unit District 301 school board is revising its policy for homeschoolers participation in public school sports. Of note is this comment from Superintendent Todd Stirn: “We live in an age of greater accountability all the time. I fully support a family’s right...
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Utah Senate panel OKs bill to allow home-schooled students to play sports

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A report on the Salt Lake Tribune’s website tells us that Sen. Mark Madsen (R) failed for the last three years to move a bill forward to allow homeschoolers to participate in sports because the bill had “too many loopholes for failing students to participate in sports and wouldn’t have held home-schooled students to...
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Homeschooled Olympians

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Homeschooling is an option for many kids with demanding training schedules and a dedicated parent or tutor. USA Today reported in 2005 on the growing trend to homeschool elite athletes, with reporter Sal Ruibal noting that athletes who are homeschooled have the flexibility to get adequate workout time, nutrition and rest—something a traditional school...
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Sports and ‘home-schooling’

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Louisiana High School Athletic Association has a “home-school” issue on their agenda: “We need to make a stand, one way or the other, on how to handle home-schooled students this year,” Henderson said in the meeting held at the new LHSAA office. “If we don’t, the Legislature may step in and make one for...
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