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Memorial Day - Monday, May 25
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it was expanded to include those who died in any war or military action.
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Wear Your Freedom Proudly
 Visit the Texas Home School Coalition Association store and buy a great T-shirt advertising that you homeschool in Texas. The shirts are made of grey cotton, of course! Children's T-shirts cost $10. Adult-sized shirts are $12; larger adult sizes are $14.
THSC Association now has three great designs to help you brag about being a home schooler in the best place possible:
Free in Texas design
Front: I homeschool in Texas....
Back: ...where people are free!
President design
Front: Texas wants another President ...
Back: ... so I homeschool.
Mighty Texans design
Front: Everywhere we go,
People want to know
Who we are, so we tell them
Back: We are the Texans,
the mighty, mighty Texans,
and we're homeschooled, and we love it!
See pictures of all our designs.
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New Zealand Home Schoolers Win Robotic Competition
"Auckland Homeschool Team Free Range Robotics took away two awards at the 2009 Vex Robotics World Championships held 30th April - 2nd May in Dallas, Texas.
"They won the World Championship title for Programming Skills where they had to design and programme a robot to navigate over a field and score goals in a one-minute period, without any human intervention. They were one of the two top scoring robots in the preliminaries and went on to face off against the other top team in the finals. The team watched and cheered as the free range robot scored in 3 goals while picking up other blocks on the field and then managed to finish on the raised platform with 4 seconds to go. The final score was 28 to 14, giving Free Range Robotics the World Title in programming skills." Read the article.... |
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SETHSA Book Fair in Houston
 The Southeast Texas Home School Association (SETHSA) will host its twenty-third summer conference June 5 and 6 in Houston's Reliant Center (8400 Kirby Drive in Houston). This year's featured speakers are Norm Wakefield, with Spirit of Elijah Ministries, and Doreen Morgan and her daughter, Faith, with Faithful Bookshop. They will be joined by several other notable speakers, including THSC's Tim and Lyndsay Lambert.
Tim Lambert will speak on Why Homeschool? A Vision for the Future, What Every Texas Home Schooler Needs to Know, and Fulfilling the Good Citizenship Requirement. Lyndsay Lambert's topics are Home School Stress Syndrome and Home Schooling: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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Reprinted with permission. Taken from the Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons, www.familymanweb.com
Do you have a funny, home-school-related anecdote you'd like to share? We'd love to publish it! Please send it to THSC and include your name and city. |
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Angelo State University Discriminates Against Home School Graduate
Although an Association member's daughter turned in all paperwork in a timely manner, Angelo State University (ASU) delayed admitting her until the deadline for financial aid had passed. The university also limited her credit hours per semester so that graduation would take much longer than normal. The mother contacted THSC, and Tim Lambert wrote ASU, advising the director of admissions of the state's policy toward home schooled graduates seeking admission to college. He urged the director to comply with the state's rules.
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Everything I Know I Learned in Home School
Melody Gillum
A nice diploma from the University of Texas at Austin hangs in my home, verifying that I spent many hours there learning the science of education. After graduating I taught in the classroom, where I discovered that educational theory could not hold a candle to classroom experience. I became a mother and discovered that child training was entirely different from behavior management. Then I became a home school mom of seven and got a real education and discovered that everything I know I learned in home school. Read the article.... |
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June Events
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June 26-27, Austin
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