UIL in Tx. told son ’no’ to playing ball

You are not reading the legislation wrong. Charter/Home/Private school students are allowed to participate. The UIL does not have the authority determine the eligibility of a charter/private/home school student. The school may not realize the laws have changed or the school is hoping you don’t know the law and will go away after the reply from the UIL.

Hard to believe this is still going on but every month I read about some parent that home schools in Texas getting dragged before a judge to explain the choices they have made for their children.

Your son can practice with the team until you can get this resolved. The football coach can get you the medical form for the physical. Most likely they have contracted with a local doctor so there should be no charge. You cannot be charged for anything unless the other students are being charged.

The UIL(PS superintendents) creates rules not laws. Go to this link for more information:

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First off, I told you the HSLDA or other home school associations in Texas would not help you. And other public school superintendents are surely not going to help. You can ask for help and advice but it’s up to you to follow it or use it. Obviously you decided to do this your way but you make a statement like the one in the previous post you need to back it up. “I think you are misunderstanding the law as written”. Exactly which law and what is the misunderstanding? “the law DOES NOT say what you say it does.” Not even sure what you mean but the laws I posted were cut and pasted from the code. You have such faith in these organizations why didn’t you just go to them in the first place? You should have questioned them just like you should have questioned the PS superintendent. I contacted a few home school associations and they were all in agreement as well. And by the end I found they were all wrong.

Secondly, my children participated and excelled in public school extracurricular activities including athletics (as did friends of mine). There was resistance from the superintendent and as a matter of fact, he told me I was misunderstanding the law although he could not tell me exactly which law I misunderstood or how the UIL could penalize the school.

And it’s just not athletics. Your children can participate in the other school sponsored activities and represent the public school. All-state choir, orchestra, band…. and if the school offers duel enrollment or college courses to the public school students your children can participate also.

My son earned an athletic scholarship to a very expensive private school that he could not have gotten into without being on the team nor could we have afforded to send him to this school without the scholarship. We had a lot of film from the public school with great competition that home school teams simply cannot provide and the public high school coach was instrumental in the process.

If you want your son to play on the football team you have to do this yourself. The homeschool associations are not going to do it for you and some other superintendent is not going to help you.