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Next Meeting: To Be Announced
Most Recent Meeting:
Tim Lambert,
President, Texas Home School Coalition
Tuesday February 16 at 6:30pm
Two Topics:
1. What Every
Texas Home Schooler Needs to Know
In the first hour, Tim Lambert
discusses the history of home education in Texas and the
nation, explains the law concerning home schooling, and
gives an update on this year’s legislative session and
bills that might impact home education in Texas. He
relates ways home schooling families can avoid problems
with school authorities and procedures for being
prepared for the truant officer or a social worker at
the door. Tim also shares how home schoolers can answer
those oft-asked questions such as, “What about
socialization?”
2. Planning for
the Future: What Comes After Graduation?
The second hour, Tim talks about home schoolers going to
college - how to plan and prepare. He also tells about
apprenticeship, a time-tested approach to vocational
preparation. Other options he addresses are trade
schools, the military, and home management.
Every home school family, whether new
or veteran, can benefit from the information Tim shares
in these talks. Tim will also close with some discussion
of THSC and its benefits for home school families. There
will be a short break between the two talks.
Location
Waterview Church of Christ, 1409 N. Waterview
Drive, Richardson, TX 75080.
(West side of Waterview between
Arapaho and Campbell)
Speaker Biography
Tim
Lambert, President of the Texas Home School Coalition
(now celebrating its twentieth anniversary), has been
involved in home school leadership in Texas for over
twenty years. He and his wife Lyndsay taught their four
now-grown children at home for sixteen years, graduating
the last two in 2000.
Tim publishes the Texas Home
School Coalition Review magazine, now in its tenth
year, which reaches over 60,000 Texas home school
families on a quarterly basis. As the head of the state
home school organization for the leading home school
state in the country, he is recognized as an authority
on home education issues in Texas. In this capacity, he
has testified before numerous Texas legislative
committees on issues related to home schooling. He often
deals with state government agencies, including the
Texas Education Agency and Texas Department of Family
and Protective Services, on home education issues and
has served as an expert witness on home education in a
number of court cases. He has often addressed such
conferences as the Texas Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers on the topic.
Tim holds a BA in political science
from Texas Tech University and is active in the
political arena, having served eight years as Republican
National Committeeman for Texas. He is committed to
serving the home school community and protecting
parents' right to choose the education of their
children.
Click here for information about the Lambert family.
Admission is free. This meeting is
open to RHSA members and to non-members.
Please join us at this informative
meeting!
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