Subway has issued a public apology for excluding home schooled kids from their most recent promotion (hat tip Young Mommy):
To HSLDA:
We at SUBWAY restaurants place a high value on education, regardless of the setting, and have initiated a number of programs and promotions aimed at educating our youth in the areas of health and fitness.
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 homeschooled children from the opportunity to win prizes and benefit from better access to fitness equipment.
To address the inadvertent limitation of our current contest and provide an opportunity for even more kids to improve their fitness, we will soon create an additional contest in which homeschooled students will be encouraged to participate. When the kids win, everyone wins!
—Subway restaurants
Once again, this shows the impact moms have in the corporate world. Moms are the primary decision makers when it comes to spending family money, and more and more moms are homeschooling their children. Subway was quite daft in treating the children of homeschooling moms like they weren't "real" students.
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