Reply #15: The homeschooler who put forth the question [View All]

is lacking a basic understanding of statistics and logic.

1. One outlier with excellent test scores doesn't create a threat for public school students to get into college. To determine whether homeschoolers are more likely overall to get accepted to college, you'd have to look at their records as a group, not one case study.

2. A highly intelligent student who aces a test like that would be likely to get into college no matter what schooling method they opted for.

3. The reason teacher unions sometimes object to homeschoolers playing school sports isn't what the poster thinks. The issue isn't that they want the homeschoolers to not be allowed on the team - it's that they want the state to pass the appropriate pro-rated portion of the per-student funding to the school for those students to cover the school's costs if nonstudents are using school resources.

I have some issues with that last point, related to whether tax dollars earmarked for education should be getting used to fund football teams and coaches at all. If a large enough percent of their budget is going toward sports that it has a serious impact on their budget, maybe they need to relook at their priorities.