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Special Fellowships at Convention!
 Feeling like you are the only one fighting your battle? Come and be supported by other fellows in the same ship! There will be facilitated sessions for families facing unique circumstances on Saturday afternoon at the THSC State Convention and Family Conference. Get re-energized to start the new school year!
There will be Special Fellowships for:
- Minority Families
- Support Group Leaders
- Families with Single Parents
- Families with Special Needs Children
- Families with Only Children
 Meet Convention Featured Speaker David Hazell!
David Hazell has been involved in home schooling since 1987. During several of those years he was a stay-at-home dad directly responsible for educating his children. For eight years, David and his family lived in Russia, where he served in Bible translation in Siberia and helped coordinate Bible translations in eighty languages. His six children often ministered with him as he traveled throughout Russia and Europe.... (Click on David's picture for more.)
Make your plans to hear David present Home Schooling in the Real World and Working Dads Can Homeschool, Too!
Click the convention graphic to view a complete schedule of Convention workshops.
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Association Members Get Discount on Smoothing the Way
 If you are a new home schooler, or just about to get started, joining the Texas Home School Coalition Association is a smart move. One great benefit for those just starting out is a discounted membership in Smoothing the Way.
Smoothing the Way is a support group dedicated to serving first-year home schoolers. Each month a topic of specific interest to the new home schooler is offered. Veteran home schooling moms and guest speakers are available to inform and encourage those who have decided to take on the exciting, yet sometimes daunting, task of educating their own children. The cost of a lifetime membership is $75, with a $10 discount to THSC members.
Take advantage of all the benefits that come with membership in the Texas Home School Coalition!
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Invest in Your Support Group
 Do you want to show your appreciation to those support group leaders who sacrificially give of their time and energy to serve the home school community in your area? Perhaps you are a past leader who has stepped down to pass on the reins of leadership to others. Invest in the future of your group and help send your leaders to the 2009 THSC Leadership Training Conference (LTC).
The LTC is designed specifically for Texas home school organization leaders, providing both encouragement and training. The workshops are both informational and inspirational, and the education your leaders receive will benefit your entire group.
Like most home school families, support group leaders are often one-income families, and even a small donation toward the cost of registration might enable your leaders to attend, so consider blessing your leadership team with a gift towards their 2009 registration. They will come back encouraged, refreshed, and ready to pass those blessings on to you!
Pre-registration ends August 31, so show your appreciation now and make your gift go even farther. Contact your leaders and let them know of your intent to bless them with a donation towards their LTC registration OR contact THSC to donate anonymously on behalf of your leader or leadership team, and we will contact your leader(s) to inform them of the donation.
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Did You Miss the Latest THSC Leader Letter?
Are you a home school group leader? ... but you didn't get the THSC Leader Letter this week?
Get your support group connected with THSC and take advantage of all the benefits available to support groups and support group leaders.
One valuable benefit is our monthly e-newsletter designed specifically for home school group leaders. Our Leader Letter contains encouraging articles for those in leadership, helpful information and links for home school support organizations, and information about upcoming events such as our upcoming Leadership Training Conference.
Don't miss out on the next THSC Leader Letter. Go to Update Profile/Email Address at the bottom of this e-mail and register to receive the FREE Leader Letter. | |
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Home Schooled Athletes Join Competition in Delaware
A Delaware "diploma program for home-educated high school athletes," called Mount Sophia Academy, received approval for full membership status from the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA), which permits the program's students to participate in sports programs competing against other schools.
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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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Teamsters Question Home Schooler's Insurance Status
 After their insurance company questioned whether or not their son was eligible for coverage, a member family contacted THSC. Tim Lambert wrote a letter to the company, assuring its representative that the son is a full-time student according to the laws of the state of Texas and, as such, is eligible to be covered by the family's insurance policy.
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Getting Off the Conveyor Belt
Do kids need more school?
Not so, say education innovators Gary North and John Taylor Gatto.
Traditional schooling hurts kids. This realization caused a New York State Teacher of the Year to leave the public school system after serving for nearly three decades. John Taylor Gatto is his name, and in 2001 he published The Underground History of American Education. Mr. Gatto has written extensively on the need for parents to abandon the traditional school setting in favor of true education for their kids.
The Real Value of "School"
According to Gatto, it is essential for parents to differentiate between "school" and "education." In an essay that appeared in Harper's several years ago, Gatto wrote that "success" and "school" are often viewed as synonymous but "historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense." In other words, attending a good school doesn't guarantee that a student will make it big in their career. The environment alone does not ensure positive growth or development.
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