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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.

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You mean that they actually get an education?

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

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!

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
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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?

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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…

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

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?

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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.

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.

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.