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Announcing the Thirteenth Annual Awards Banquet
 THSC invites you to an elegant evening at the Omni Houston Hotel, Friday, April 11. We are proud to recognize everyday home schoolers who have impacted communities and leaders who have sacrificed to serve and to do what is right. We are also honored to be joined by special guest and keynote speaker, Senator Dan Patrick.
As a popular talk-radio host, since 1988 Dan Patrick has used the airwaves to advance his Christian values while advocating for a more principled government, lower property taxes, and improved border security. In 2006, Dan took his fight on these issues to the Texas State Senate by winning an election with an overwhelming 69 percent majority. Senator Patrick succeeded in permanently placing the creed, "In God We Trust," over the Senate chamber, pushing open government legislation, forcing votes on lowered appraisal caps and pushing bills that empower local law enforcement to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
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A Special Note to Leaders
 We hope that all of the leaders to whom we recently mailed a copy of THSC Association's Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers are enjoying their books! Besides being a way we can thank these people for their sacrificial service to Texas home schoolers, we mailed these complimentary copies to leaders because they are usually the ones who get to answer many of the questions of potential, new, and even veteran home schoolers. This book can help them do that better, as it holds the answers to over 95% of the questions Texans ask about home education.
What?! You're a leader, and you didn't get one?
That probably means that we do not have a current listing of officers and their contact information in your group. All you have to do to get a FREE Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers is to send us the following information:
Name(s)
Postal Address
E-mail Address
Name of Support Group & City Served
Office Held
Also, if YOU didn't get one, your fellow officers probably didn't either. Please help us by forwarding this e-mail to them (see link at bottom of page) so THEY, too, can get their free book! (This offer is available only to leaders/board members of local home school support groups in Texas.)
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SWAT Officers Invade Home
 SWAT team officers invaded a Colorado home schooling family's mobile home, after receiving permission from a local magistrate. The situation came about as a result of the father's decision to monitor his son's condition himself, after the boy hurt his head in a fall.
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Georgetown Home Schoolers Use Puppets in Anti-Smoking Campaign
 Home schooled students from Georgetown have developed and are performing a Muppet-like puppet show that teaches the dangers of smoking. They have presented the show at local elementary schools, and the response has been enthusiastic.
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THSC Association Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers
 Start 2008 as an informed home schooling parent! Get the newest edition of the Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers now! This publication is a "must-read" for all Texas home educators and features articles about how to homeschool in Texas, options after graduation, how to deal with school districts and Child Protective Services, along with many other helpful pieces. This year's edition has also been updated with changes in the law, which impact home educators and passed in the legislative session this past spring. See a listing of important information in the current Table of Contents.
The price, $18, has not increased, even though more information has been added each year! Click on the graphic to order.
An Even Better Deal!
Many home schoolers will benefit from purchasing the Beginner Packet. The packet includes: the THSC Association Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers; The Role of Fathers in Education (by Tim Lambert) [CD]; Homeschooling: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (by Lyndsay Lambert) [CD]; and Ready, Set...Now What Do I Do? (by Tim and Lyndsay together) [DVD]. This incredible resource is available for only $35, a $10 savings over buying these items separately.
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Utah Mom Exonerated
 Denise Mafi, the Utah home schooling mom accused of breaking compulsory attendance laws and threatened with the removal of her children from her home, had all charges dismissed on December 7, 2007.
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Dallas Federalist Leadership School Offered Free to Students
 Commentator Robert Novak to speak
THSC Association passes along the following announcement for your information:
Future leaders and responsible citizens can attend a unique type of leadership training at the Federalist Leadership Center's Dallas School.
Why a Federalist Leadership School? True leadership must be based upon philosophical understanding, specifically in the U.S., upon the Federalist thinking of America's founders. The United States can only be successful if these principles-illustrated best by its greatest founding writing, The Federalist Papers-are as viable and central to its leaders and citizens today as they were at the nation's birth.
Ronald Reagan won the cold war and began returning America to its Federalist principles. Through the Federalist Leadership Center at Bellevue University, Dr. Donald Devine-President Reagan's former chief of personnel-is conducting schools for students and young potential civic leaders throughout the U.S. to help revive the Federalist principles in modern times. Professor Devine will be joined by commentator Robert Novak, who will speak at dinner discussing these principles.
The Dallas school will be held
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
Radisson Hotel, Dallas Love Field
1241 W Mockingbird Lane
Classes: 3-6:00 PM
Dinner with Robert Novak: 6-8:00 PM
Registration deadline: Jan. 27, 2008
Fees: Students-Free, Adults-$35
Sign up today for the Dallas Federalist Leadership School by e-mailing armantova@gmail.com. If you have questions, call the Federalist Leadership Center at 703-407-4684 for further information.
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Sanctity of Life Sunday - January 20
 January 20 is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. This article from Focus on the Family provides practical ways the average person can be involved in preserving the sacredness of all human life. For more information, click on the graphic.
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Let's Talk About Beef!
Seeking Candidates for the Texas Beef Ambassador Speech Competition
 The chance to compete for $3,000 and the title of Texas Beef Ambassador is in store for entrants in the 2008 Texas Beef Ambassador Competition, March 15, 2008, in Corpus Christi.
Open to all youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty, but not older than twenty as of Jan. 1, 2009, contestants are asked to deliver a five- to eight-minute speech on the positive aspects of beef consumption and on the beef industry's ability to promote the nutritional, economic, environmental, and versatile uses of beef.
Top winners will receive prize money, and the first place winner will also represent the state at various speaking engagements during the year and at the national contest held in the fall of 2008.
The deadline to enter is February 1, 2008. For more information about the Texas Beef Ambassador Program, click on the link below or contact Texas Cattle Women, Melissa Muegge at 713.819.4603 or e-mail, or Rosemary Gambino at 281.375.8836 or e-mail.
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A Merry Heart Doeth Good...
Reprinted with permission. Taken from the Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons www.familymanweb.com |
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Westwood College Online Seeks Information
Westwood College Online called the THSC office requesting information on how the state of Texas treats home school graduates who are seeking college admission. Tim Lambert responded with the required information and assurances that home school graduates are as qualified to excel in a college setting as are public school graduates.
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It's January, and like many teachers, do you have the mid-year blues? We hope you'll benefit from the following article, a sample of the helpful information in our Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers. |
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How to Prevent Burnout
You must be kidding," Mary replied to me as she sat in my office, dabbing her eyes with a Kleenex. "Me Suffering from burnout? I'm no hard-charging, high-priority executive. I'm just a housewife and home school mom."
Why would Mary, a housewife, suffer from burnout? She and her husband, a staff member at a church, juggled an intense schedule of demands and tried to balance a slim budget while they raised three children. Furthermore, Mary had committed
herself to homeschooling her children.
It is not only the type A, perfectionist, workaholic executives with whom we associate burnout who suffer from it but also counselors, pastors, teachers, nurses, policemen, and yes, even housewives and home school moms.
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