Subway Excludes Home Schoolers Blogswarm

• May 26, 2008

Where you’re down and depressed over the political situation we’re faced with there’s nothing like a blogswarm to cheer you up.
Subway is holding a story writing contest and specifically excluding kids that are homeschooled.

Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.

When I first read the story on Wizbang, who got it from Michelle Malkin, I thought it must be a franchisee. But it appears to be Subway Subway.
Can anyone be this stupid? It’d be one thing to not consider homeschooled kids. But why would you exclude them? I could see limiting the grand prize of $5000 of athletic equipment which is meant to go to a school, but you should encourage homeschooled to participate for the individual prizes.
Who cares anyway, I hate their fluffy bread, lots of sauce and no meat sandwiches anyway.

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Daniel stole my thunder! That is exactly why home schooled kids are banned, they are superior in every metric that can be applied to education.

And exactly why does Doctor’s Association Inc. own a crappy assed fast food chain in the first place?
http://www.bismarckmandanblog.com/ clintf

Notice that there’s a misspelling in the ad. Apparently the folks that made it weren’t homeschooled!
Neiman

I read this too Whistler! The solution to allow the winner, if home schooled, would have been so easy and there would have been no ill will. Someone at Subway, designing this program, had to go out of their way to be this stupid!
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Maybe they should exclude that guy Jared from being their spokesman, since he didn’t go through a formal weight loss program like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig?
Greg

Yeah but I think it is really about the prize, and Subway’s attempt to pass off their food as healthy. Hundreds of public or private school kids will benefit, and Subway will be donating to a charitable organization.

Having said that, I’d put my 6-year old homeschool girl up against those other kids. She writes journal entries everyday, draws with linear perspective, and does multiplication. She does regularly attend to a co-op school run by the local district, maybe that would be good enough for Subway. Hmmm…
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

You mean that they actually get an education?
aardvark

Say, Bike Bubba, what contests are those — “a lot of contests specifically exclude the homeschooled.” ? We’ve been homeschooling for coming up on 24 years and I don’t remember any.
http://history-nerd.blogspot.com/ Daniel

I’m going to post the same thing here that I did at Wizbang, playing the devil’s advocate: Maybe Subway thought home schooled kids would have an unfair advantage.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

Look ‘em up on HSLDA’s news logs. About 3-4 times per year, they’re sending a note to some group or other running a contest for students that excludes the homeschooled.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

Unfortunately, a lot of contests specifically exclude the homeschooled. The excuse/reason given is that they don’t want to include those who can spend all their time on such a contest.

That said, it’s very interesting to see yet another business taking pains to promote institutional schooling over free schooling. One possible reason; the institutional school, sadly often including parochial and private schools, tends to do a better job a training children to be greedy little consumers who will work long hours to get money to consume. See John Taylor Gatto for more details on this.

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