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THSC Association Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers
Get the newest edition of the Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers now! This informative publication is a "must-read" for all Texas home educators and features articles about how to homeschool in Texas, options after graduation, as well as how to deal with school districts and Child Protective Services, along with many other helpful articles. This year's edition has also been updated with changes in the law, which impact home educators that 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 by 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, SetNow... 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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Writing Contest Offers Opportunity to High School Writers
 A trip to Paris, $20,000 in scholarship money, $1000 cash, and a book contract - all these were awarded to a sixteen-year-old home schooled teen from Danville, Indiana. Hannah Stahlhut entered the Tweener Time Chapter Book Competition and won first place, over teen writers from twenty states and eleven foreign countries.The competition grew out of Tweener Ministries, formed two years ago to encourage literacy among "tweeners"--eight- to twelve-year-olds. In order to encourage writing skills as well as reading proficiency, organizers expanded the ministry to include the writing competition, which is for ninth through-twelfth graders. As these are the groups that tweeners emulate most, they are the ones encouraged to write chapter books for the younger group.
To read more about the prize winners and Tweener Ministries, click on the graphic.
The next Tweener Time Chapter Book Competition is already underway. The deadline is May 15, 2008.
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More Writing Contests
 Encourage the budding writers in your family and check out these two competitions.
Home Schoolers for Life - Pro-life Essay Contest for ages eight to seventeen.
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2007
"Write Like Mike" - Be a sports columnist - Ages eight to twelve.
Deadline: Feb. 14, 2008 (postmark date) |
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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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Ft. Worth Social Services Denies Assistance
A representative of the Ft. Worth branch of the Texas Department of State Health Services denied continuing services to a home schooling mother and child unless the mother sent a letter listing her curricula. When the mother complied, the official still refused to continue her assistance.
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K Through BA: The Home School Vision All the Way
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My purpose is not to persuade you into a college education through distance learning. God has different, wonderful plans for each of us, and for a great many they do not include college at all. My goal is to inform and challenge those desiring a college degree, for whatever motivation, to make use of the accelerated credit earning options available. At home or abroad, in high school or as a working young adult, for just a few credits or many, distance learning can help you meet your goals.
My parents introduced me to college distance learning in high school. Using credit-by-exam and online courses, I was able to earn twenty hours of dual high school/college credit before graduation. We were not planning on college at the time, but the credits were there to give me a jump-start if I needed them.
Bucking the norm, my parents supported me in pursuing apprenticeship and ministry opportunities instead of college. For four growing years, while many of my friends were in college, God gave me opportunities to learn, travel, minister, and apprentice. How grateful I am that my parents did not rush me into college because of pressure from family and friends. It was not always easy.
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