From the Tennessean...

For the last three years, their swim caps have provided the only recognition VanRyckeghem's team was going to get. Tennessee high school swimming, which is governed by a different organization than most Tennessee high school sports, recognized home-schooled swimmers as individuals but not as a team.

Why not, VanRyckeghem figured, wear caps that said different?

All that changed Thursday night on the eve of this season's state swimming championships at the Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville, when high school coaches from across the state voted to allow home-school teams to participate in next year's meet as official teams.

Battles we shouldn't have even had to fight. But, we keep winning them, and it does prepare our kids for a world, hostile to much of what they're being taught.