Re: Homeschoolers in UIL
I don't have any concrete numbers, but home schoolers cost the district more money than what the district would spend on educating them. We have many home schoolers here, and I believe we lost around $4500 per student in state funding.
I pay taxes to the city, but I don't assume they will just let me borrow their front-end loader any time I needed it.
Just my $.02
Coachjdjones,
Just so you understand what your $.02 will get you.....you don't lose money for things you didn't do.....if you educate a kid you get , you get your "$4500" (assuming that is a correct figure) so you didn't lose anything because you didn't do anything ! But the homeschool family living in your district is still paying taxes to your district for something that the district is not providing, so your money ahead because you don't have one of those "bad" homeschoolers taken up space in your classroom.
If, in paying taxes to your city , you received absolutely nothing in return, then I would argue you have every right to expect to use the front-end loader.
By the way , two homeschool players from our championship team are presently employed(paid positions) to coach sixman football while they are in college to get their degrees.