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Seguin ISD holds off on welcoming homeschool students to its campuses Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
SHS student wants to help you SEE GREEN Seguin High School Senior Diego Hernandez is inviting the community to learn more about his “Save Money, Save the Environment” campaign. According to Hernandez, the special Saturday afternoon presentation at the Seguin Public Library is to “mainly bring awareness and to teach people how we can live a better future and how we can be an advocate for that better future.” See story on page 2.
(Seguin) -- Folks will have to wait and see whether the Seguin ISD will allow homeschool students the opportunity to participate in its UIL activities. The motion to table the decision was made Tuesday night by Trustee\ Denise Crettenden. Following a few seconds of silence among the other trustees, Crettenden opted to table the item instead of agreeing to the district’s recommendation not to allow non-enrolled students to participate in UIL activities at this time. As reported by KWED, interest from some parents prompted the agenda item. The interest was in response to recent legislation spelled out in House Bill 547 that now allows homeschooled children to participate in UIL activities. The House bill, however, can only be implemented if approved by each respective school district.
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After district officials reviewed the measures as outlined in the House Bill Crettenden felt that more homework was necessary to justify a decision one way or another. “I looked up some other school districts who have started to allow home school students to participate. I saw that their perimeters were very robust. They knew exactly – they had picked the Stanford Achievement Test. They had chosen was sports and activities. They just had a lot of information. They had designated who was looking at eligibility, who was bringing in that test. There were just a lot of specifics that I don’t think we had, and I would want to hear about what activities people may want to participate in and things like that and craft a local policy before we just pass a blanket policy,” said Crettenden. Homeschool, pg. 3