Subway Snubs Homeschoolers in Writing Contest
Apparently the fact that homeschoolers are proving to out do their counterparts in spelling bees, geography bees and math competitions makes them ineligible to enter Subway’s creative writing contest designed for school aged children.
Now I know that homeschoolers do tend to sound more intelligent than their chronological age, but that does not change the fact that they are school-aged? 
Seriously though, Subway’s creative writing contest does specifically exclude homeschoolers and this exclusion can be interpreted one of two ways . . .
Either Subway believes:
OR
Whether either of these two interpretations are valid, the fact is Subway’s decision to exclude homeschoolers is an affront to the homeschool community and should not be ignored.
Their claim, I am sure, is that they decided to exclude homeschoolers because the grand prize is $5000 of athletic equipment for the child’s school.
Subway, may I suggest that since homeschoolers do tend to be strong supporters of their community and heavily involved in community service, they could easily find a good home for the promised athletic equipment?
Next time you decide to run a contest, consider the ramifications of excluding over two million school aged children!
Many are calling for a boycott of Subway; however, I would add that we also need to make our voices heard. Click here to let Subway know how offensive they have been.
Or click here to enter the contest anyway.
But remember:
- NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied (sic) States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.
. . . so if you do win, you may have to forfeit the prize.
But wouldn’t it be something if the top three selections were written by homeschoolers?
That would put them in an interesting spot wouldn’t it?
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Belinda,
And now they are going to have a contest specifically for those in the homeschool community.
Apparently Subway got the message…lol! I went to leave a comment and they had a statement in which they backpeddaled like mad!
Great job on getting the word out!
By the way, I found your site via CM Yahoo Group. You are now bookmarked in my favorites
Thanks for the inspiring posts.
Blessings,
Mrs. Q
I honestly think it’s a tlittle too much to call for “boycotting”. I believe their intent of the contest was to have some earn new equipment for schools (which are the prizes in this contest). I don’t believe they were trying to discriminate against anyone and/or that they think homeschooler are smarter or less than public school kids. I think people can find reasons to take issue with just about anything and this is one of those cases. If the prize was for a scholarship or cash and they excluded homeschoolers, than that would be an issue. I am a homeschool mom. They have also issued a letter of “apology”.
Thanks Mrs. Q ! Glad you liked it. I can’t take credit for the SUbway post – another homeschool mom wrote that but it sure was interesting. Homeschoolers do win a lot of those contests, that’s for sure lol
Hi
I just wanted to alert you that your link to dinners in the freezer is wrong and leads to a dead page. You inadvertently misspelled the link, it says dinners in ther freezer, so a quick correction to the link will have people arriving at your site with no problem.
Nice Site
Thanks! I fixed that.
Belinda
Help!!! I have a 16 year old daughter. For the first semester of her freshman year she went to a private school. For the second semester I homeschooled her with the same textbooks borrowed from the school. For her sophomore year she passed all classes all year. This year she wants to go to public school but they will not accept the second semester of her freshman year?????????
Any thoughts would be appreciated,
CAthy