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VOTE!
 Early voting ends Friday, October 31. Election Day is Tuesday, November 4. Make sure your voice is heard - get out and vote! Still wondering who the best choices are among all those candidates? Check out the Family Research Council's 2008 Presidential Voter's Guide.
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College Planning Resources
 As our children get older, we start thinking about their futures. If college is a possibility for yours, take a look at the three great resources offered through membership in the Texas Home School Coalition Association.
College in a Box gives your high schooler everything needed to begin earning college credit at home. Included in this package are: Distance Learning from Home, the Princeton Review's Cracking the CLEP study guide, Dynamic Memory Course, the Maximum Speed Reading course, and IEW's Advanced Communication Series. THSC Association members are given a discount of $25 on this great resource.
College Plus! provides coaching and mentoring for the new college student who wants to earn a fully accredited bachelor's degree in less than half the normal time and at half the cost of a traditional college education. This service comes at a $120 discount for THSC Association members.
College and Career Planning Services provides home schooled students with services from career assessment to help with college enrollment, as well as job skills training. THSC Association members receive a 10% discount at CCPS.
These are just some of the great benefits of membership in the Texas Home School Coalition Association. Find the ones that are right for your family. |
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Turn Back the Clock!
 Daylight Saving Time Ends November 2.
What a country! At least once a year we get to turn back the clock and relive the last hour. Don't miss it - turn back time for yourself on November 2, or at least the night before. Now ... will you be early or late for church?
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Working Replica of Noah's Ark Opens in Schagen, Netherlands
 " The massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was thrown open Saturday for the first crowd of curious Pilgrims and townsfolk to behold the wonder.
"Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark, built by Dutch Creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.
"The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.
"Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold. A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine -Biblical Scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been."
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A Merry Heart Doeth Good
Who, Me? Political?  In the spirit of the political season, we're sending you to World magazine's Web site to enjoy some of the best election humor around.
Laugh...or in some cases, maybe groan?! |
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Spring Branch ISD Requests "Exemption Questionnaire"
 After an Association member family in Houston withdrew its child from school in July, they received a letter from the Spring Branch ISD police. The investigating officer enclosed an "Exemption Questionnaire," which he required the family to complete and return to the district. Tim Lambert wrote to the Spring Branch ISD police department and informed them of the Texas Education Agency's requirements for withdrawing a child from public school to homeschool him. He urged the district to accept the letter of assurance the family had sent and to remove the child from the district's rolls.
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Our Children, Our Mirrors
We have a problem with sarcasm in our home. Our quick-witted, eight-year-old son has crossed over the line to sarcasm. One day in particular, he was sarcastic every time I spoke to him. I repeatedly asked him to stop, but he continued. I put my foot down, "Enough sarcasm! I don't want to hear another sarcastic word for the rest of the day." Within thirty minutes we had yet another sarcasm offense. Unfortunately, this time I was the offender. My son and I gaped at each other in surprise. "Okay," I conceded, "that goes for me too!" We also have a problem with bossiness in our home. My three-and-a-half-year-old daughter leans toward bossiness. ... Okay, the apple does not fall far from the tree ... again. Read the article.... |
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