From the updated Subway writing contest site:
"We sincerely apologize to anyone who feels excluded by our current essay contest....“To address the inadvertent limitation of our current contest... we will soon create an additional contest in which home schooled students will be encouraged to participate." (italics mine)
Soon? How soon? And why not just amend this contest to include homeschoolers?
Why beat around the bread? The rules for the original contest were pretty definite:Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.
Would you like that on a footlong pejorative or 6 inch intolerant?
OK. So what? Get over it. Subway did issue an apology. Look down there where it says, "Not part of a public school? Click here." But wait. Aren't private & parochial schools by definition not public schools?
It all sounds rather disingenuous, and more like embarrassed back peddling brought about by the exclusionary mindset toward home schoolers from the suits at Doctors Associates, Inc. - the corporate owners of Subway Sandwich Shops.
To be fair, homeschoolers probably can't effectively utilize the $5000 grand prize of athletic equipment, but the home schooled kids sure would appreciate the nod of inclusion & competition for the gift cards, or a published story. So why not just amend this current contest?
Besides, gub'mint schools already rake in the lions share of millions upon millions of tax payer dollars for support of their inefficient bureaucracy, and dubious scholastic results. Yet, those individual families who choose not to subject their children to this sub-par environment; educate them at home; incur the solitary financial burden to do so; delegate large amounts of time to make it all happen; plus are still forced to monetarily support the failed gub'mint schools in their area via tax dollars now have to face the insult from a national chain store that says, "your kids ain't welcome" in big bold letters?!
Krykee. What's next, Subway? Coupons for bigots?!
I'm going to Jason's Deli, instead.
TY BMW
