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Precious in the Sight of the Lord Is the Death of His Saints....
 Yesterday a good friend of Texas home schoolers passed into glory. Chris Klicka went home after a long battle with MS. He worked with HSLDA as their lawyer for Texas for many years and served as the executive director of the National Center for Home Education, among other things. We mourn the loss but rejoice as he is out of pain and with his Lord. We ask Texas home schoolers to join us in prayer for comfort for his family at this time. His wife Tracy has written of his last days at caringbridge.org.
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Inspiration On-the-Go
 The THSC store has a rich selection of seminars and lectures to aid and inspire you on your home schooling journey. These CDs cover diverse topics, from the legality of home schooling to courtship as an alternative to dating. Some other subjects are: the teen years, the father's role in the home school, and, of course, how to get started homeschooling.
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Gifted Student Held Back by Graduation Rules
"Anyone who wants to appreciate how strong a grip high school has on the American imagination - and how clueless some school districts are about this - should consider the story of Drew Gamblin, a 16-year-old student at Howard High School in Ellicott City.
"Drew, a child so gifted he taught himself to write at age 3, craves a high school education and all that comes with it - debate team, music, drama, and senior prom.
"After a series of inexplicable decisions by Howard County school officials, such as requiring him to stay in a Howard High algebra class he had already mastered, his parents decided to homeschool him and put him in college classes. But Drew insisted on his high school dream."
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 Our home school co-op is studying the War Between the States this year. Last week, my wife Belinda was drilling our middle son over the chapters they had read in his history book. She asked him to tell her the name of the important document that Lincoln signed regarding slavery. He paused a bit and then said, "The Constipation Proclamation." ~ Pat Harrell, Arlington 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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Internal Revenue Service Requires Verification of Home Schooling
After the IRS questioned the status of an Association member's grandchildren, whom she is homeschooling, the grandmother contacted THSC. Tim Lambert wrote a letter to an IRS worker. He explained that the children were being homeschooled by their grandmother, and he explained how the state of Texas looks at home schoolers as private school students. He also pointed out that the IRS has no standing in enforcing compulsory attendance laws.
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Foundations
Sally Clarkson
Many years ago I visited a small Austrian village nestled into the side of a mountain, surrounded by a lake. At the side of the mountain was a very old, castle-like rock home standing boldly against the sheer incline of the ancient mountain.
The night we visited this town there was a violent storm that encompassed the whole village - water came up to the first floors, and electricity went out all over the village. Rumbling and crashing resounded all around us.
As we looked out fearfully toward the lake below, the lightning flashed again. In the momentary light, we observed that the rain and the lake seemed almost to join in the frenzied wind and storm blowing and swirling in all directions. Yet there was a dark form - the only thing in our eyesight that was not moving - standing placidly still in one of the fiercest storms I had ever witnessed. It was the small castle that had been built on the rock almost 800 years before.
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