Thread: Public School Teams that allow Private School students to join
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Re: Public School Teams that allow Private School students to join
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Originally Posted by Meredith Novak View Post
A simple reminder to the public school administration that EVERYONE pays taxes to support public schools regardless of whether or not they attend might be helpful. If I ever encounter questions here about allowing home school or private school students on the team, that settles it pretty quickly. Of course we are only nominally funded by the public schools, but all the students travel on the buses.
There you have it! So long as the students in question live inside the borders of your school district and their households pay taxes in the district, there really isn't much argument at all. Now, if the students in question live outside of the district, you'll probably have to frame your request differently.
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