Response from Central Texas Pop Warner

Thanks for the contact.


Yes, I am the Administrator for Central Texas and I am the one that reminded Ed in our meeting about the need for the forms.

For clarification the request I gave was for any Association that had a player with a 70 or below average and those in home schools to provide a progress report, dated between Sept 16 and Oct 16. There are two separate forms and they both can be obtained on the Pop Warner webiste under ADMIN and then Scholastic forms.

If I have missed something or interpreted something wrong, I apologize in advance. If you have been in Pop Warner for 5 years, you are well aware that we are concerned about the whole child and not just the football player or cheer leader. I will forward your email up the chain of command and ask for better clarification if I read the forms wrong.

Please do not feel that your child is being picked on unfairly, it surely is not the intent and again, if I am wrong in my interpretation I will be the first to apologize.

Thanks

Well, I do feel that the request that is being made is unfair. It is unfair to paint homeschooled kids with the same brush that kids who are not making acceptable grades. I told the man so, in my reply. I still do not expect to hear from National Pop Warner. We are only one family. What do they care? They pride themselves on being around for more than 75 years. They claim to be concerned about the whole child and that is why they created Little Scholars, their sub-organization which gives away scholarships to kids who make good grades.

For many years homeschoolers have been looked on with suspicion. Colleges don't trust our transcripts.. The United States military forces used to enlist homeschooled students on the same tier as high school drop outs. This kind of ignorance must be rectified.

Mr. Brown doesn't seem to think it is a big deal for us to just fill out the form and turn in a progress report. the actual action is not a big deal. The big deal is that my kids, and other homeschooled kids, and their parents, are being viewed with suspicion that they are not making grades that qualify them to play youth league football. How ridiculous.