New rule for home schoolers attracts two to high school football team

A couple of non-public school students will play football this fall at La Crosse Logan. Results of a new state law that says home-schooled students can now take part in activities and athletics in public schools . Logan Athletic Director, Steve Hole says he had to first insure that the students were attending a home school that was registered with the state and then a letter from the parents of the students, assuring the district that the kids were, “academically up to speed.”  

 

 But school boards do not have the right to find out if what the parents said about their students is true or not says Dave Anderson, who heads the WIAA, which regulates athletic competition among school districts in the state.  That is also part of state law.  He says, eventually some sort of monitoring will likely be put into place to insure students are achieving what parents say they are. 

Anderson says Wisconsin isn’t re-inventing the wheel with the new rule; nearly half the states have something similar in place.