RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina parents who home-school their children but worry about them missing the lessons that come from sports are getting a sympathetic ear at the state Legislature.
Proposed legislation would require that local public schools allow home-schoolers to play as if they were enrolled there.
Both the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and a group that speaks for home-schooling families object to the bill now awaiting a hearing in a House education committee. Both worry about how to prove whether a student is making the academic progress required for eligibility.
Fifteen-year-old Rebecca Lobach of Durham has always played against home-schooled students like herself. She says she likes the idea of testing herself against the better competition that comes from a larger crop of public school students.