2009 Curriculum Fair Workshop Schedule
The 2009 Curriculum Fair Workshop Schedule is now online and available from the Curriculum Fair page.
Featured Story
Uprooted Homeless Mission Invites Homeschoolers to Help
A Chattanooga agency serving the homeless is inviting homeschool families to assist in its abrupt move out of borrowed quarters at the Salvation Army building downtown.
The Union Gospel Mission has been bounced twice already from temporary quarters after it was forced to leave its longtime abode on East Main Street.
“This has been a time that our faith has been tested, fortunately we were granted an extension by the Salvation Army and we have until Monday (June 22),” said Jon Rector, director of the 59-year-old mission to destitute and homeless men. The original deadline had been Saturday (June 20).
Commentary
Economic chaos and personal responsibility
By Jon Rector
In Tuesday’s Times Free Press appeared a story that told how President Obama and his treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, want to assign new regulatory powers to the Federal Reserve System “to guard against the types of risks that could bring down the entire system.”
This sort of language about the “entire system” collapsing has been so pervasive since the national financial meltdown began in September that we scarcely seem to notice it. So great has the financial decimation been in Chattanooga and around the country that cataclysmic language and fresh exercises of “emergency” powers behind them seem ho-hum.
Newsletter
Esprit newsletter — printed or electronic?
By Shan Hughey and David Tulis
We are considering going online with our areawide homeschool newsletter Esprit. We are weighing this for two main reasons. The first is cost, and the second is convenience. Many of you appreciate or prefer accessing news online.
The cost reason has two sides to it.
To the subscriber, CSTHEA would be able to offer the online or electronic subscriber a lower rate. The other side of the coin is that it would cost less for CSTHEA to produce the newsletter. Currently, we are losing $5,000 a year publishing Esprit. The deficit has grown because of our upgrade in printing services, first-class postage for areas which had been receiving the newsletter late, and as our costs went up while our subscription rate stayed the same.
Having the Esprit available as a download or sent as a PDF would also fit right in to the digital age. Many of us actually prefer to get information that way.
But putting the Esprit online invites a potentially embarrassing problem.
Sports
Chattanooga Patriots Cross Country
Get ready to run! Both Boys and Girls High School, Middle School (grades 6-8), and Elementary School (grades 3-5) teams forming now for the fall cross country season. Contact Coach Jim Steffes at Jim@bartohoss.com or 423-313-0602.
Events & Activities
Slideshow of Graduation
The Times Free Press has a slideshow of photos from Saturday’s Graduation.
Law & Politics
Groundbreaking victory for homeschoolers
By Bobbie Patray
The bill that passed the Senate and House Schools requires that diplomas issued by homeschools be recognized by all state and local governmental entities as having the same rights and privileges of diplomas issued by public school systems.
BACKGROUND: Despite the fact that home schooled students are being accepted in colleges and universities all across the nation as well as being recruited by Ivy League schools, it was learned a couple of years ago that some entities here in Tennessee that require a high school diploma to work decided that home schooled students from a “Category IV” schools did not meet that criteria. This decision affected day care workers and potential law enforcement recruits among others. Since the state recognizes and authorizes this kind of education, it is only just that diplomas from these schools be recognized. An effort to fix this problem failed last year.
Editorial
Family resistance
It began as a slow trickle earlier this year but now has turned into a full blown flood of e-mail.
Each time I open my in-box I am inundated with bad news on way too many fronts. The economy is faltering and getting worse; yet another troubling nomination for a cabinet level post; the pro-life movement may be gutted by proposed legislation; parental rights are threatened; homosexual marriage is gaining ground in more states; the national debt is out of sight. The other day, “Focus on the Family” founder James Dobson actually told his crew that the culture war is being lost in America.
What is a homeschooling mom to do?
Other Headlines
2009 Curriculum Fair Workshop Summaries Posted
Workshop Summaries for the 2009 Curriculum Fair / Education Expo have been posted on the Curriculum Fair page. The summaries are also available in this post for your convenience.
2009 Curriculum Fair Pre-paid Registration
2009 Curriculum Fair Pre-paid Registration Information has been posted on the Curriculum Fair page. This information is also available in this post for your convenience.
2009 Expo General Information
General Information for the 2009 Curriculum Fair / Education Expo has been posted on the Curriculum Fair page. It is also available in this post for your convenience.