Home-schooling doesn’t keep these athletes from playing
BevK May 9th, 2006
http://www.concordmonitor…ITORY/605080313
Three different homeschool stories of kids playing sports for the local public school.
In the insular world of high school, where a few hundred kids spend six hours a day together and everyone knows everyone else’s business, the transition from the classroom to the athletic field is virtually seamless. Same faces, different setting.
For the handful of home-schooled students who suit up for their local high schools, however, it’s not always so easy. In some cases, earlier participation in youth sports programs like Little League means the faces are familiar regardless of the educational situation. When that happens, a player like Brian Shorey can be the co-captain of the baseball team from a school he’s never attended.
Other times, though, the transition requires more finesse. For the Frisbie brothers, it meant playing as freshmen and potentially taking playing time away from their more experience Kearsarge teammates. For Concord High’s Mark Sullivan, also a freshman, it meant trying to fit in on the varsity team not just as an underclassman, but as a stranger to Concord and the school.
As easy or as tough as the adjustment may be, all three cases illustrate one immutable rule of high school sports: If you can get the job done after 3 o’clock,
where you were for the rest of the day takes a back seat.
