Tennessee Homeschool High School Sports -
There are many home school sports teams and leagues in Tennessee. TN teams have attended the National Homeschool Basketball competitions for nearly 20 years. Have you seen the articles in your local homeschool newsletter?
Homeschool sports teams and leagues have been organized in various locations across the state in basketball, baseball, and soccer, but we've had no publicly available vehicle to describe what's going on.
This web page is designed to be a sounding board, a place of reference, a resource for teams, and for competitors to find each other.
It is also a place for homeschooling families in Tennessee to announce your victories, your achievements, your goals and to encourage each other. When you post a record of your personal or team accomplishments, please understand that you are then authorizing publication of that information in homeschool newsletters.
We'll be tracking the legislative developments, describing interactions with the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, or TSSAA, which is the private regulatory agency for Tennessee high school sports, and tracking laws that might affect home schoolers and sports.
To deal with sports we want to deal with the sporting activity and the impact on family life. We want to look at relationships within the family.
Ninety percent + of Tennessee homeschooling families want their young adults to have the opportunity to be engaged in sports.
At least 50% of those same families want their students to have access to compete with or against public school students. The fun of competition and the possibility of very valuable college scholarships lights the fire in many hearts to pursue changes in the rules governing public school high school sports in Tennessee. We'll explore why there is a drop in percentage between the first and second category as part of the ongoing discussion.
Are we learning to "love our neighbor as ourselves" as we prepare and compete?
Sports and passion are very close friends. Do you wonder why? Do you have some ideas? Let's blog.
What type of attitude does your sports competitor have?
What is the attitude of the competitor's parents?
When home schoolers demand to be allowed to compete in our local public school sports teams, are we in a position to begin losing our freedom to home school by facing increased scrutiny of our homes? How do we safeguard against losing that hard won freedom?
The physical education of our children is a part of their education. As with all other parts of training up our children, let's proceed with wisdom, strength, with appropriate caution, and will a full settled joy that the Creator of the family can lead each father and mother to properly train the children that have been entrusted to them.
Playing sports is fun, serious business. Let us use those family training opportunities to build a strong generation who compete well in all areas of life and who learn how to strive for the prize and what is the most valuable prize to strive for.
