Why join THSC Association?

Support the work of the state organization that works to maintain YOUR right to homeschool. (Click on icon to learn more about what THSC does for you.)

Take advantage of its extensive Member Benefit Package.
One of the benefits of membership is legal assistance when faced with problems related to home education. The Association’s full time staff gives prompt and vigorous attention to the needs of member families when they have been contacted by local government officials challenging the right of the family to home school. These experienced staff members intervene with government officials by phone, in writing and/or with legal counsel to end the confrontation and confirm the right of the parents to teach their children at home.

In addition, the helpful resources in the THSC Association online store (click on Store button after Father article) may be purchased at 10% off the regular prices. Members can also take advantage of special prices on magazines, programs, and services from different benefit providers.

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Click on Join THSC Association (see link after Father article) to the left to join online and immediately become eligible to participate in THSC Association’s Member Benefit Package. Join now and seize the benefits! THSC Association looks forward to serving you!

The 2006 state elections could well determine how free home educators in Texas remain. It is crucial for home schoolers to become/remain proactive in protecting the freedom to which they have become accustomed! Early voting began yesterday and will continue through Friday. (Vote early, because you never know what Election Day—Tuesday, April 11th— may bring.) Keep working for the friends who support the right of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children!

Click on the Vote icon to access the Secretary of State website for election officials by county. You can see numbers to call in your county for early voting locations. You can also contact your political party headquarters for that information.

The Homeschooling on the Border Conference, co-sponsored by Southwest Homeschool Network (SHN) and West El Paso Christian Homeschool Association (WECHA), will be held

April 6-8, 2006, at
Scotsdale Baptist Church (click on graphic for map)
10015 Lockerbie Drive
El Paso, Texas.

Along with other speakers, THSC’s Tim Lambert will be speaking on Friday the 7th at 11:00 a.m. on “What Every Home Schooler Needs to Know About the Law” and giving a devotional Saturday the 8th at 9:20 a.m.

For registration information and updates, visit www.elpasohomeschool.com or www.wecha.org or call 915-842-8021, 915-598-9535, or 915-852-3951.

Southwest Dallas Home School Association
will hold its monthly meeting:
Tuesday, April 11, 2006,
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

At: Faith Bible Church 1437 W. Pleasant Run Rd. DeSoto, TX 75115 In the FLC Building (in the back of the church in the gym) Click on the SWDHSCA graphic for map.

The group will welcome THSC’s president Tim Lambert and his wife Lyndsay as speakers. Their talks will be complementary one to one another, as Lyndsay will speak words of encouragement in “Home School Stress Syndrome,” and Tim will address “So What's the Dad Supposed to Do?”

There will be a dinner as well, so people planning to attend need to RSVP to info@swdhsa.org attention Dana Daniels.

Child care will be provided. 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. (Please retrieve your children promptly after the meeting.)

In an article by Jun-Ho Cha Kum-Chun Hwang, appearing March 25, 2006, at donga.com, news focuses on the spread of home education in Korea. The following paragraphs are excerpted from the article.

More [Korean] Parents Choose Home School Option

“After his parents pulled him out of elementary school to be home schooled last December, nine-year-old Paju resident Kim Seong-hyeon recently received a strange gift: a refrigerator.

“Kim’s mother Lee Yoon-jeong (36) said, ‘Through home schooling we came to discover our child’s talent [electronics].’ Lee decided to teach Seong-hyeon’s brother, age 5, at home as well.

“More households are opting for home schooling rather than sending their children to regular schools.

“The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development estimates that about 1,000 households are home schooling their children.”

In his article appearing at Roanoke.com March 22, 2006, author Paul Dellinger tells of home schoolers who do not fit the preconceived notion of isolated, lonely, homebound kids. It seems that sometimes the winners of national and international competitions are far from that picture. His examples are the children of Jeff and Charlene Long of Pearisburg (VA), Chris, 16, and Erin, 15. The teens will represent Southwest Virginia at an international science fair in May.

The following are excerpts from the article.

Home schooled brother, sister win science honors
“[The Long family] had been playing a board game involving attractions in various states, Jeff Long recalled, and got to talking about some they would like to see.

“‘And all of a sudden, we were talking about “Let's go do some of these things,” he said. ‘I don't know why some people think home-schoolers are home- bound.’"

“In May, Chris and Erin will be making another trip, to Indianapolis to compete in the 57th Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (click on picture to see fair details). This is the world's largest pre-college science celebration, with more than 1,400 students from more than 40 countries competing for scholarships, tuition grants, internships and a grand prize of a $50,000 college scholarship.”

When THSC Association was contacted by a home schooling parent who had been accosted by public school officials from a district in which her child was not nor had ever been enrolled, president Tim Lambert wrote the letter to be seen at the link below.