Tim Tebow’s Sports Law Legacy Is The Home-Schooled Athlete Debate
By Gary J. Chester
Tim Tebow will forever be revered in Florida as the Heisman-winning quarterback who helped lead the Gators to national titles in 2006 and 2008. But outside Florida, many identify Tebow as the symbol of a movement towards permitting home-schooled students to participate in interscholastic sports for high schools they don’t physically attend. Tebow was homeschooled in Florida and because, in 1996, Florida had enacted a law allowing home-schooled students to participate