Tim Tebow, like a good chunk of Evangelical Christians, was homeschooled throughout high school. But, a Floridian law was passed to allow for homeschooled children to play for local public or private schools. This was presumably not done for Tim Tebow alone, but for the many parents of children who pay taxes that support public schools but don't receive any benefit from them. Now a series of laws is coming up in Virginia to allow this to happen and because Tebow was homeschooled, his name naturally and without any consideration of the personhood of Tim Tebow, only his transcendental image, gets attached the Virginia document.

Proponents of the change in the law argue that taxpaying citizens should receive the same treatments across the board. Those against it argue that homeschool children do not meet all of the criteria to play sports in a public school. But, the Republicans of Virginia have enough power to push it through. In a very surprising way, an association that represents teachers is opposing the Republican measure. This is surprising because teacher's unions almost never disagree with Republican policy making.

For our part, there is no right to play sports. However, the idea that homeschool children should be excluded from a function because of the choice of their parents seems wrong and unfair. The argument that it will allow coaches to pick and choose the best players from the state is one that doesn't hold much water because this could be enforced easily enough if school administrators actually did something other than ferociously guard their pensions. At the end of the day this shouldn't be a political matter or a matter for schools whatsoever. If sports were detached from education then we wouldn't have this issue. But then what would ex-jocks do to relive their glory days if there were no such things as Gym Teachers/Football coaches.