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Are you stepping with trepidation into the world of homeschooling High School? If so, you'll want to be sure and read TOS very own Homeschooling the High Schooler in E-Book or Audio CD format. In this book you'll hear from experienced authors, speakers and curriculum developers, homeschool graduates and homeschool parents just like you. They share why they chose to homeschool through high school, some of the opportunities they took advantage of along the way, and the blessings they reaped from keeping their teens at home for high school. This book is a must-have for those working with older children. And at only $12.45 for the E-book version, it's a bargain as well!

And if you're already in the midst of homeschooling High School, take a look at Accepted! The College Planning Workbook. Most people believe college planning  begins in the junior year. The reality is the best college plan begins even earlier in order for the student to take advantage of the advanced academic work offered at the junior and senior levels of high school. No matter where you are in your personal college planning, ACCEPTED! will walk you through the process, step by step.

-Dena

Mercy in the Morning
Deborah Wuehler, TOS Senior Editor

The summer my first child was entering ninth grade, I was more than a little nervous. I could hear loud and clear all the questions people had for me when my son was young, "What about high school? What will you do THEN?" As if high school was some magic point in time where you must stop educating and throw your kids to the wolves. When do we stop listening to the call of God for our children and our family - when society says we should?

We must admit, just hearing the word "High School" gives us the jitters. Really, high school is just like all the other years - you pray, you do your research, you pray some more. You go with your child's interests and work his studies around that - or whatever philosophy of education you have adopted for your family. They ALL work all the way through high school.

If you are interested in how to create a high school transcript or have other questions about homeschooling through high school, here's a good site with tons of free information: http://www.hslda.org/highschool/default.asp

My son may be graduating from our homeschool this next year, and when I mentioned that to him, he said, "I don't want to graduate from our school! I don't want to go anywhere else to be educated!" Well, he's already taken a few courses from the local junior college, but he says those don't count because he comes right back home to study. Too funny. He considers his college courses just an extension of his home studies.

Someone asked me about all the fun they'll miss staying home. They're going to miss that feeling they get when the popular cheerleaders in the school assemblies encourage the whole crowd to participate in the school cheer! You might remind yourself that they'll also be missing the reasons for the school assembly: graphic displays of safe sex practices or homosexual tolerance or any number of God-blasting philosophies.

Home is where fun should happen. Home is where education should happen. It is the starting point as well as the leaping off point for all of life.

And, we should all cheer because we are on the winning team with the Lord on our side!

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear . . ."
Psalm 118:6

Cheering you on,
Deborah

High school, low school, give me HOME school!