Soil from Stone

…but doesn’t retract:

To HSLDA [Home School Legal Defense Association]:

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

There was a very simple solution to this problem that would have achieved Subway’s goals without excluding anyone, but Subway has chosen the way of “separate, but equal.” That’s their right, of course. Since they only went half-way with this, I’ll only go half-way too. I’ll go to Subway if there’s nothing else around.

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There’s a lot of talk online about Subway excluding homeschoolers from their “Every Sandwich Tells a Story” writing contest. Having seen many a similar e-rumor, I thought it would be wise to confirm this one before passing it on.

Here’s the confirmation from subwayfreshbuzz.com:

This accomplishes two things for Subway:

1. It eliminates needless profits. I like going to Subway because it’s relatively healthy fast food. Unfortunately, I won’t be eating there again until they make a well-publicized apology and change the contest rules.
2. It makes public school students feel better about their inability to spell common English words. Basket, for example.
   
   This image was captured from Subway’s web site. I didn’t modify it except to crop it shorter.

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