Ability to play sports at private schools if homeschooled?

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools in certain states allow this but neither MD or DC does. I don’t know about VA.

Not allowed in VA, either, per VHSL rules -

28A-2-1 Bona Fide Student Rule – The student shall be a regular bona fide student in good standing of the school which he/she represents.
28A-3-1 Enrollment Rule – The student shall have been regularly enrolled in the school which he/she represents not later than the fifteenth school day of the semester.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You can’t play sports at private schools and be homeschooled. But, yes, please call Maret and St. John’s and ask…

Instead of making fun of the OP, perhaps you should educate yourself better. Some private schools do allow this. Some private schools also allow homeschoolers to take a class or two without being fully enrolled.

All of the well regarded private schools in DC have the same policy. They don’t allow homeschoolers or students that aren’t in good academic standing or taking a full course load to play on their teams. But maybe a cheap no name school would.

They won’t allow it or cheating would be rampant. There was a school in PG county (something Baptist) that at one point had the #1 ranked baseball team
In the country.

Turns out it was all “homeschooled” kids from all over the country. The private schools would go nuts recruiting athletes from everywhere because you wouldn’t actually have to live nearby…it would be no problem to house them nearby just in-season.

Public schools usually let you on your local team.

Who is paying to house these athletes?

Coaches, some of the truly local athletes’ families, school would rent housing for the kid and a parent, etc.

The founder of Under Armour went to SJC and would have no problem helping subsidize a superstar QB “homeschooled” in GA. In fact, he has helped arrange housing for kids that do actually transfer from OOS.

[Anonymous]

At the grammar school level, if you are a practicing Catholic and member of a parish with a school, you can participate in the CYO teams at that school. Basketball, volleyball, tennis, XC and track.

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Anonymous wrote:At the grammar school level, if you are a practicing Catholic and member of a parish with a school, you can participate in the CYO teams at that school. Basketball, volleyball, tennis, XC and track.

If you are a member of the parish, you can participate in CYO sports...you don't have to be a practicing Catholic (i.e., they don't require your sacraments transcript).

CYO is nothing different than playing Little League Baseball. There are many kids that don't attend the school that play CYO sports, but the schools themselves may have sports teams that compete independently of CYO.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You can’t play sports at private schools and be homeschooled. But, yes, please call Maret and St. John’s and ask…

Instead of making fun of the OP, perhaps you should educate yourself better. Some private schools do allow this. Some private schools also allow homeschoolers to take a class or two without being fully enrolled.

I'm sure the parents paying 50k a year love it when their kid gets cut in favor of a kid not even attending the school

I can't imagine bay any of the top tier privates would ever allow this, but maybe a podunk parochial somewhere with 80 kids enrolled would.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You can’t play sports at private schools and be homeschooled. But, yes, please call Maret and St. John’s and ask…

Instead of making fun of the OP, perhaps you should educate yourself better. Some private schools do allow this. Some private schools also allow homeschoolers to take a class or two without being fully enrolled.

I'm sure the parents paying 50k a year love it when their kid gets cut in favor of a kid not even attending the school

I can't imagine bay any of the top tier privates would ever allow this, but maybe a podunk parochial somewhere with 80 kids enrolled would.

Many of the smaller religious schools do. These tend to have good relationships with the homeschool community in general, and it offers a foot in the door for homeschoolers that switch to going either full or part time.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You can’t play sports at private schools and be homeschooled. But, yes, please call Maret and St. John’s and ask…

Instead of making fun of the OP, perhaps you should educate yourself better. Some private schools do allow this. Some private schools also allow homeschoolers to take a class or two without being fully enrolled.

I'm sure the parents paying 50k a year love it when their kid gets cut in favor of a kid not even attending the school

I can't imagine bay any of the top tier privates would ever allow this, but maybe a podunk parochial somewhere with 80 kids enrolled would.

Many of the smaller religious schools do. These tend to have good relationships with the homeschool community in general, and it offers a foot in the door for homeschoolers that switch to going either full or part time.

I believe that’s the podunk parochial school that PP was referring.