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Your Organization + THSC = Great Results!
The Texas Home School Coalition is offering to partner with support organizations across the state in order to provide them support, member benefits, and publicity. This free service includes the following benefits for your group:
- referral of families to your organization,
- THSC Assn. membership discount for your group's members,
- leadership newsletters and updates via e-mail,
- tips and meeting ideas,
- office support by our trained staff, for questions and concerns,
- invitation to THSC's annual Leadership Training Conference,
- and coming soon, a listing on the THSC website.
This partnership is a great way to let home schoolers who are new to your area and/or home schooling know that your group exists and is waiting to support their efforts. Your group will remain completely autonomous-THSC exists to support home schoolers, not oversee them.
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Where Is the Evidence of Abuse?
 In this article for the Dallas Morning News, Scott Henson asks what evidence of abuse Child Protective Services has actually found in the case of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints members in Eldorado. He alleges that the only thing the court in the case has really objected to is the belief system the children have been taught.
In Eldorado, no one alleges YFZ parents are themselves abusing children. Instead the allegation (in court, at least) is that they're teaching their kids that a woman's highest calling is giving birth and raising children and that it's acceptable to get married at an early age. Even if it were true, and the allegation was disputed, can this really be enough to seize children from their homes?
For more by Scott Henson on this case, visit his blog, Grits for Breakfast.
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Helpful Videos Make Home Schooling Easier
 THSC offers several videos to help you on your home education journey. If you are just getting started, take a look at Ready, Set...Now What Do I Do? Tim and Lyndsay Lambert answer questions about where to get curricula, whether or not bulletin boards are necessary, how to teach several grade levels at once, and, "Is this LEGAL?!" You can take a deep breath and relax, as they guide your first steps on this exciting adventure.
Are your children teenagers? You may be interested in hearing about an alternative to dating. In Courtship-One Family's Perspective, Tim, Lyndsay, their son Peter, and his wife Rita share their experiences and ideas about this "new" way for young people to find spouses while keeping their purity intact. To see our whole line of great home school resources, click on the graphic.
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Why Is the State Called Texas?
" Texas. What's in a name? Perhaps a whole linguistic misunderstanding."You may have heard the name comes from the Spanish name for the Tejas Indian tribe or kingdom. But none such ever existed.
"You may have heard the state's motto - Friendship - is an English translation of Tejas. Not exactly.
"But Tejas lives on in names ranging from an Intel computer chip that was never produced to an album by the rock band ZZ Top.
"The name of the Lone Star State originated, according to the Handbook of Texas, in the interactions of the early Spanish explorers and an Indian federation whose real name was the Hasinais, more commonly known today as the Caddos."
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Take a Science/Political Field Trip!
 THSC passes the following information along to its network for your information.
Home school families can attend a stop on the nationwide hot air balloon tour by Americans for Prosperity and learn about the stealth energy tax being pushed by global warming alarmists.
AFP's hot air balloon will stop in Dallas and Houston on May 2 for grassroots events (with a possible bus from Austin). The events are completely free, but be sure to register to reserve your place. Ride in a hot air balloon (weather permitting), enjoy a meal, and hear how the economic impact of global warming policies being debated in Congress will affect you.
They will have food, music, balloons, balloon rides and fun as well as educational material!
Dallas
8:30 a.m.; Friday, May 2, Southern Methodist University, Westcott Field
Houston
6:30 p.m.; Fiday May 2, Bear Creek Park
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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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South San Antonio ISD Official Requires Illegal Forms
A South San Antonio ISD official refused to withdraw a student from school, even after receiving the letter of withdrawal and assurance as required by the state. The next day a visiting teacher from the school called to say she was on her way to the family's home to make sure the father was the person who had sent the withdrawal form and to "speak with him concerning his home schooling." Tim Lambert wrote a letter advising the district of the state's requirements regarding withdrawing a student to homeschool and warned its representative to withdraw the child and cease the district's harassment of the family.
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A Jumpstart into College Through CLEP
Kellie Kennedy
"Are you going to homeschool your kids through high school?" "How are you going to get them into college?" "Are you worried they'll be prepared?"
These are some typical questions that home schooling families often face as we embark on homeschooling our children into the high school years. Like it or not, these are questions we should be asking ourselves. In fact, it was asking myself those questions that led to our fifteen-year-old son taking some College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests that resulted in six hours of college credit at Texas Tech.
Many home schoolers and their families are unaware of the opportunity to earn college credit through CLEP tests. The program extends the opportunity to earn course credit to students who have acquired an unusual amount of information through independent reading and experience. The CLEP examinations cover the material taught in introductory courses that students are often required to take during the first two years of college study. I first began researching the CLEP test at the College Board Web site. There I learned where the closest testing sites are located.
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Easy Kids' Crafts - Mother's Day Is Next Week!
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