Homeschooled children soon may be throwing fastballs and going long with Northern Virginia’s public school students.
A bill to allow kids educated at home to play public-school sports cleared the Virginia House Education Committee on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
Dubbed the “Tebow bill” after Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who was homeschooled while growing up in Florida but played for a public-school team, the bill passed the committee 14-8 and will go to the House floor next.
Homeschooled children and their parents have argued that, as taxpayers, they should be allowed to play public-school sports.
But the public schools’ administrators, teachers and PTAs say they’re concerned that home-schooled children will get more practice time in than public school students, saying kids in school have more regimented schedules.
