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Five Judicial Races About Which Home Schoolers Should Care

By |2019-08-15T11:43:04-05:00February 4th, 2016|Legislative Advocacy|

Five Seats on the Texas Supreme Court could change your freedoms. For whom should you vote?

It isn’t difficult to see that the U.S. judicial system is succumbing to a lack of integrity and a lack of commitment to upholding the Constitution. In the face of this, there are five important Texas judicial races that home schoolers should care about when they go to vote in the Texas Primary election this February and March.

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How to Teach Good Citizenship

By |2021-03-29T08:35:37-05:00February 2nd, 2016|Legislative Advocacy|

This is the season when some home schoolers begin to ask THSC why we “do all this political stuff.” We are in the midst of the primary election time when voters will choose what will become not only the political party nominations for local, state, and federal offices, but what will also be in many cases the actual elected official.

While many of us parents would like to focus on the important issues of raising our children in the admonition of the Lord and educating them for life, I and many other Texas parents learned 30 years ago that we ignore the process of choosing those who represent us in our government at our own peril. These officials at every level can and often do make decisions that directly impact our rights as parents to direct the care, control, and upbringing of our children; and if we wait until there is a problem to help these officials understand parental rights and home education, it will be too late.

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Five Steps to Shared Teaching

By |2019-08-08T13:42:08-05:00February 1st, 2016|Homeschool|

Monday and Tuesday are two of my favorite days of the week. Usually, Monday is reserved for the sluggish way we get back into a work week or the day we “start school” again. At the Orr house, our Mondays and Tuesdays are reserved for shared teaching. Yes, you read correctly, shared teaching. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy teaching my children, very much, in fact. There are times, however, that we need a little something extra.

Shared teaching, or a home school cooperative, is best explained as a way for parents to team up for the purpose of teaching one or multiple subjects to a group of students. Our family has participated in several types of cooperatives, but my favorite are the ones we host in the comfort of our home.

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