Feb 14
For the second year running, the so-called Tebow bill to allow home-schooled children to play sports at public schools they don’t attend has been sacked in Virginia’s Senate. The bill failed on a 7-8 vote in the Senate Education and Health Committee. Among those who advocated allowing home-schooled children to play for varsity teams of local public high schools was Josh Henderson, a 16th-round Los Angeles Dodgers draft pick from Suffolk. He asked the committee just to give home-schooled children a chance to play. But his father, Steve Henderson, argued that taxes he pays gives home-schoolers a right to earn high school roster spots.