Subway...Eat stale!

Even the right-wingers are mad this time!

Politics can make strange bedfellows, but who'd have ever thunk I'd ever be on the same side as conservatives on anything school-related? While I favor homeschooling because schools are too right-wing, they like it because they think schools aren't right-wing enough. (I guess they've never been to Campbell County.)

However, Subway - the chain of sub sandwich shops - does not favor it.

Flubway has a contest now for elementary school children. It's a story contest, in which kids write a narrative starting with one of 4 story openings provided on the website:

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/contest.aspx

The contest is open to children in public and private elementary schools. But I've found at least 3 different places where the forces of Subwaydom declare, "No home schools will be accepted."

What???

It's not as if whoever designed this contest had such a great education. After David Burt praised Internet "fitlering", I hate to grade everyone's spelling, but it's spelled 'basket', not 'bastket' like Subway has on its site. And the country is called the 'United States', not 'Untied States' as the Flubway spelling whizzes have.

That Subway won't accept homeschoolers in this contest is blatant discrimination, and I know I'm not the only person who'd like to see this stopped.

Homeschooling. It's not just for conservatives anymore!