How can it be fair for a homeschool team to compete against a public school team?
This comes up each year when homeschooled teams start winning tournaments. People falsely believe that homeschool teams spend every moment of each day working the problem as some kind of long term project. For the most part, this is absurd. The reason they tend to do well is that the team starts as a cohesive group from day one. They share some kind of bond that pulls them together. This might be a religion or simply surviving in an area without a public school. They also have parents that are very supportive. So is it fair? It is not unfair. If you can bind a team together and get the parents to be supportive you are on equal footing.
