Letter from Pam Tebow

March 21, 2006

Greetings!

      During the recent recruiting of our son, Tim Tebow, our family fell in love with the warm, gracious, 

      passionate people in the great state of Alabama. It is, therefore, a privilege to write this letter 

      on their behalf. As the mother of three home schooled boys who participated in high school athletics, 

      I appeal to the lawmakers in Alabama to allow your home schooling families to take advantage of the 

      extracurricular activities at the local schools. These families pay taxes, which should afford them 

      the same rights as other citizens in your state! 

      It has been my experience that the families who home school are a positive addition to an athletic team,

      school band, or interest club. Parents are usually involved and are willing to volunteer to assist the 

      various programs. The character of the home schooled students is often an encouragement to those in 

      their sphere of influence. 

      All five of our children were educated at home, and all of them received scholarships to college: 

      academic, music, and athletic. Some of them would not have received scholarships if they had been 

      prohibited from participating in extracurricular activities at our local school. 

      If you contact the high school football, basketball, and baseball coaches of our youngest son, Timmy, 

      they will tell you that in his three years at Nease High School, he had an impact not only on the 

      athletic success, but also on the families who were involved in the program. Our goal was never to 

      promote home education but to honor our God, coaches, teams, school, and our supportive county and 

      state that provided this wonderful opportunity for him to participate in high school sports. They were 

      a blessing to our family, and we, in turn, wanted to be a blessing to them. Timmy regularly was the 

      spokesman for his football coach’s team goals of “character, strength, and honor” at many local schools,

      athletic organizations, and community clubs, and he continues in a similar role while a student athlete 

      at the University of Florida. 

      Home schooling allowed us the time to train our children in the academic subjects that are required, 

      to pass on our value system, and also to prepare them for life. Athletics has been a significant aspect 

      of that preparation, and we will be forever grateful to our legislators who provided this wonderful 

      opportunity for our children to participate in the areas God has gifted them.

      Please seriously consider granting this same freedom to the home schooling families in Alabama that 

      most other states in our nation already provide!           

      Sincerely,           

      Pam Tebow

The following is an excerpt is from an article in the "Florida Baptist Witness".  To read the entire article, click here.

Teaching their children to “honor God” played a consuming role in Pam and Bob Tebow’s decision to homeschool their five children, even before the concept was popular. “If I could get my kids to the age of 25 and they know God and serve God and had character qualities that pleased God, then I knew God would be happy and I would be happy,” explained the senior Tebow.

“The only way I could do that was to do it myself, commit to God that this is my job,” Bob Tebow allowed. “Traditional academics had to take a back seat to God’s Word and character building.”

“You can be well educated in the world’s eyes and still be a sorry person. You can graduate with degrees and have no character. Character defines who you are.”

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