Give Home School Student Chance To Play Analysis

Another argument would be that the parents are the ones who make the decision on whether their child is to be educated from home or from a public school, and the home-schooled students should not have to deal with those consequences of not being in public school. When a student is homeschooled they are limited to the number of activities that they are allowed to participate in. This should not be the case, each student whether they are homeschooled or not should have an equal opportunity to take part in sports or other extracurricular activities. The article “Give Home-School Students Chance to Play” says, “Most of them revolve around the mindset that because I chose not to attend a public school, I should not be able to pick and choose what to participate in" (“Give Home-School Students Chance to Play par 2). …show more content…
The student should not have to face the fact that they cannot be in sports because their parents made the decision to not enroll them into a public school. Wright continues to state that “...letting homeschool students participate in athletic events does not harm the school, while refusing them admissions hurts those homeschoolers….who hope to obtain sports scholarships to college” (Wright par 1). The students are not the ones who make the decision of whether they are homeschooled or not, the decision is made by their parents. These students should not have the be refused the chance to earn a scholarship for their athletic ability solely due to the fact that their parents made the decision to homeschool them. There should be no limit to what sports and activities outside of school that home-schooled students are allowed to be a part