Home Schooler Sues To Play On Christian School's Atlhletic Teams

The Central Pennsylvania Patriot-News yesterday reported on a lawsuit by the mother of a home-schooled high school freshman who wants to play on a Christian school's soccer and basketball teams.  Under the rules of the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Athletic Association, home schoolers are allowed to play on public school teams in district in which they live. Here the parents want the boy to be able to participate on the teams of Covenant Christian Academy, also located in the boy's home district. Plaintiff says that PIAA is misinterpreting its own rules, and is also denying her the constitutional right to direct the education of her son. The suit was originally filed in state court, but defendants are seeking to remove it to federal court.