Being a home school parent, I might as well chime in. I am sure by now you have heard that Subway decided to have a promotional program. The current competition, called “Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest,” offers prizes and a chance to be published on the Subway website and in Scholastic’s “Parent & Child” magazine.

In a day where we are to be inclusive, - shall I digress to a discussion of my state of Colorado probably legislating that as a business owner, I must allow men and women into the same bathrooms and locker rooms, no let’s stay on subject – why would Subway exclude a segment of society, homeschooled students?

Since the story broke Subway has fixed the spelling errors on the contest site which originally was very exclusive as the only persons eligible were “..those legal resident of the Untied (sic) States..” and offered the grand prize winner a “Scholastic Gift Bastket (sic) for your home.” And they have now issued an apology and promise to be more inclusive next time.

“No home schools will be accepted.”, so lets clear the intent up with this apology of the Subway spokesman Jeremie Roche as he says, “We sincerely apologize to anyone who feels excluded by our current essay contest. Our intention was to provide an opportunity for traditional schools many of which we know have trouble affording athletic equipment, to win equipment. Our intent was certainly not to exclude homeschool children from the opportunity to win prizes and benefit from better access to fitness equipment.”

You can now get your own apology if you contacted the company to complain.

As for my family we will not boycott Subway, as they would not notice, because it has been years since we have eaten at a Subway. The brunt of a boycott is felt by the individual franchisee more than corporate and the franchise owner did not get to have a say about the contest rules anyway. Oh then there are the selfish reasons, some of the renegade franchisees still buy crowd control products outside of their corporate offerings to save over 20%, as corporate must have marked the crowd control equipment to the franchise owners by more than 100% over their cost.

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