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Wear Your Freedom Proudly!
 Visit the Texas Home School Coalition Association store and buy a great T-shirt advertising that you homeschool in Texas. The shirts are made of grey cotton, of course! Children's T-shirts cost $10. Adult-sized shirts are $12; larger adult sizes are $14.
THSC Association now has three great designs to help you brag about being a home schooler in the best place possible:
Free in Texas design
Front: I homeschool in Texas ...
Back: ... where people are free!
President design
Front: Texas wants another President ...
Back: ...so I homeschool.
Mighty Texans design
Front: Everywhere we go,
People want to know
Who we are, so we tell them
Back: We are the Texans,
the mighty, mighty Texans,
and we're homeschooled, and we love it!
See pictures of the newest designs. Be sure to identify the style you want - Mighty Texans, President or Free in Texas - in the Special Order Instructions box when you check out.
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National Home School Basketball Tourney to Move
The National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championship will call Springfield, Missouri, its home court for the next three years. Consisting of more than 300 teams, 3,000 players, 600 coaches, and families, the tournament will fill up Springfield's hotels, gyms, and restaurants the week of March 16-21, 2009. The move from Oklahoma City was necessary because of difficulty in finding venues and the announcement by the NBA that the Seattle Supersonics are moving to OKC. Tournament Executive Director Tim Flatt said the move to Springfield is expected to save tournament goers $300,000 on hotel rates and $150,000 on gas because the venues are closer together.
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Home School Okay, Appeals Court Says
 On August 8, the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles reversed its February 28 ruling that made California's 166,000 home schoolers truants from the public school system. In order to homeschool legally under that ruling, all parents who wanted to teach their own children would have to have been credentialed teachers. The reversal came after a huge public outcry from citizens, the governor of California, and the state school superintendent. Read the article.... |
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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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Linden CPS Removes Child Illegally
 The Linden CPS office removed a child from her home earlier this month based "mainly" on allegations that the parents were not adequately homeschooling her. A representative of the CPS office called THSC seeking confirmation that the family was homeschooling. While THSC was not able to confirm that, Tim Lambert did write a letter enclosing the 2005 memo from Children's Protective Services which states that "home schools are not subject to inspection, monitoring, or regulation by CPS." He also attached another letter, from the commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services, which confirms in even stronger language that home schooling is not considered a risk factor in child abuse allegations.
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Home Education 101
Joyce Burges, with the National Black Home Educators, gives home schoolers a few tips for getting started, in this article from the May 2004 REVIEW magazine. She organizes her recommendations by what she calls The Five Ps of Home Education: Parenting, Patience, Preparation/ Planning, Progress, and Purpose. Under these headings, she provides guidance in such areas as choosing curricula, developing lesson plans, instituting a schedule, and monitoring progress.
Define your purpose by seeing the big picture. Strive to produce good, people-smart individuals who will be well-educated and able to make a difference, will be independent and people of good character; will fulfill their own dreams; and will work to make good lives for themselves.
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Free Worksheets Pre-K - 5th
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