The Home Team for TIME Magazine
March 26, 2012 11:13 amA few weeks ago I was commissioned by TIME Magazine to shoot a feature about home-schooled kids and the laws surrounding their legal right to play on local school sports teams. It’s been a contentious issue in the last few months, especially in the state of Virginia, where I spent a Sunday afternoon with the Faulconer family.
Just days later the legislation was voted down by the Senate Education Committee of the Virginia General Assembly, by one vote. Regardless of your opinions about home schooling, this is a whole new issue in and of itself.
If you’d like to read the story, you can pick up the issue of TIME on newsstands today, or click here to view the story in it’s entirety.
Photo Editor: Marie Tobias
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Reed, we enjoyed your work with our family for the TIME Magazine story. I wrote about the experience at my blog, At Each Turn http://jeannefaulconer.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/just-in-time-magazine-that-is/ .
Those who would like to know more about the proposal to allow homeschoolers to play sports on their community teams at their local high schools can read about it at the VaHomeschoolers website, here http://vahomeschoolers.org/legislative/2012_01_30_reasons_to_support_sports_access.asp
Folks will understand homeschoolers a lot better if they will remember we are not stereotypes, but represent a cross-section of the general population, homeschooling for many different reasons and coming from all walks of life.
Thanks for the terrific photos – love the texture, the immediacy, the detail. You captured the essence of the kid.