Enjoy your day of celebrating the birth of the U.S.A.! In addition to time with family, friends, food, fireworks, and music, take time to give thanks for those who gave us our freedoms and those who fight to protect them and keep us safe.

You can still pre-register for the First Annual HEART of Texas Homeschool Leadership Conference

Network with other support group leaders across the Metroplex.
Gain inspiration from our slate of featured speakers including nationally-acclaimed speakers and authors Wade and Jessica Hulcy and THSC president Tim and Lyndsay Lambert. Participate in a moderated town hall discussion where YOU can share your views on issues relevant to home school leaders.

Even if you don't hold an "official" leadership title, if you have a heart to serve home schoolers in the Greater Dallas/Ft. Worth and surrounding areas, you won't want to miss the First Annual Heart of Texas Home School Leadership Conference, to be held Saturday, July 15, 2006!

Don't forget to register by July 7th.

Forgot to pre-register for the 2006 THSC State Convention and Family Conference? Wishing you could have taken care of it in advance and sorry that you missed out on the Thursday field trip to the Battleship Texas? THSC has opened Advance Registration just for people like you!

What is Advance Registration?
Although the pre-registration prices are no longer available, by registering in advance you can still get discount tickets to area attractions, save time and money by ordering on-site lunches, and you’ll get to use the pre- registration line when you arrive! Sign up for the Thursday Battleship Texas field trip or register your teen for the Teen Staff Program, but hurry. Space is limited, and these are not available when you register on-site!

Limited space is still available in the Teen Staff Program (TSP)!
Bring your teen to enjoy a mix of working essential Convention jobs, attending entertaining and educational workshops, and participating in fun activities. Mike Snavely, of Mission Imperative, will present workshops that challenge the myths of evolution and shore up the truths of creation. He’ll show how science does not support the evolutionary theory and give “tools” to combat it.

Not only that, your teen will be able to prove he’s been there, done that; he’ll get a free T-shirt to prove it! The TSP is only available to teens registered in advance and while space is available, so be sure to sign up before it’s too late! Advance registration ends July 14th.

Prepare for next school year with the discounts available to THSC Association members with your teacher and student IDs! Some book/educational supply stores will give discounts to teachers. Many of your summer activities, i.e. the museum, science museum, zoo, will give student discounts. Your THSC Association IDs are just the ticket!

Also, take 10% off the helpful resources available at the THSC Association store! And member adults will gain free admission to the THSC State Convention & Family Conference in August.

Click on the graphic above to see the complete list of benefits.

Now it is easier than ever!

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!

THSC’s president Tim Lambert is among five persons appointed by Governor Rick Perry to a position on a newly formed “Parental Advisory Committee for terms to expire at the pleasure of the Governor. The Parental Advisory Committee advises the Department of Family Protective Services on policies affecting parents, including investigations of abuse and neglect, alternative placement policies, and standards for persons who investigate allegations of abuse or neglect.”

THSC Association president Tim Lambert wrote a letter in response to a situation in which a member family was being required to go to the school to “complete the process” of withdrawing their child to homeschool.

In an article by Alexandra Colen, which appears at brusselsjournal.com, June 20, 2006, the reader sees a chilling account of the effects of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Excerpts of the article follow:

“Crackdown on Homeschoolers: It’s the UN Wot Done It

“In today’s Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen Bob Van de Voorde, the spokesman of Frank Vandenbroucke, the minister of Education, says:

“‘One of the conditions [for homeschooling] is that the homeschoolers must sign a document in which they promise to rear their children along the lines of the UN Convention on Children’s Rights. These parents have not done this. This is why the ministry has started an inquiry.’”