Court Says Home-Schooled Students Can Be Excluded From Sports

Sep 8, 2005

A majority of justices from the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia have reversed a state circuit court, finding that prohibiting the entry of home-schooled students into interscholastic activities does not violate equal protection under art. III, § 10 of the West Virginia Constitution.   In addition, the justices found that the school board named as a defendant in the case has the necessary authority to make such decisions and that there was nothing that the West Virginia Secondary
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