From IndyStar.com...

Brownsburg parent Catherine Johnson wanted to enroll her sons in advanced calculus, choir and band classes at Brownsburg High School. Superintendent Kathleen Corbin refused, saying school policy required students to take at least six classes, with rare exceptions for disabled children.

The State Board of Education intervened and ordered Corbin to admit the part-time students, setting off a legal tussle.

The dispute centered on whether turning away part-time students violated equal access provisions in the Indiana Constitution and who had the authority -- the State Board of Education or the local school district -- to make those decisions.

The state education board said state law requires schools to let in every student who wants to attend, regardless of the circumstances. To deny anyone for any reason, could be deemed discriminatory, the state said.

The school district asserted that part-time enrollment would place an added teaching and security burden on the school. Besides, district officials said, it had the authority to make and enforce its own rules....

Appeals court Chief Judge John G. Baker wrote in the ruling issued this week that "home rule" statutes adopted in 1999 give Brownsburg "the authority to regulate and control the enrollment of students in its course offerings under its policy.''

In other words even though the state continues to force the parents to fund the schools through taxes, because the schools want to discriminate against homeschoolers, they can refuse the serve those same parents are forced to pay for.

I really hope this decision is appealed further. It would be a shame to allow such a travesty of justice to stand as a precedence for future abuse.