Mar 16
Immediate Action Needed:
Despite our multiple efforts to exclude home schools from the broad sweep of anti-bullying legislation in Senate Bill 1358, the bill’s primary sponsor has failed to include, or even discuss, our requested language. The bill has now passed in the Senate.
Please email House Speaker, Lawerence Denney, and Chairman of the House Education Committee, Representative Bob Nonini, asking them to oppose Senate Bill 1358.
Mar 15
If you have ten minutes to watch an inspiring story, please see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGbwnaCnHWs
See the extraordinary lengths that one Michigan mother went to in protecting her daughter from mandated medication.
Mar 14
The 14th annual CHOIS Homeschool convention will be held on June 1-2, 2012 at the College Church of the Nazarene in Nampa Idaho.
Used Curriculum Sale on May 31st from 10-1 in the gymnasium
Full convention begins at 8:30 on Friday, June 1, 2012.
Keynote speakers: Michael Farris and Zan Tyler
Children’s Program: Superheroes of Faith
Teen Program: Generation Joshua’s iElect program
Silent Auction
Exhibit Hall
Free admission for parents of Preschoolers!
Oct 04
Barnes & Nobles Educator Appreciation Days are October 15-23. All educators with a discount card can recieve a 25% discount on all purchases, including personal. Discounts are valid in store and online at BN.COM/educator.
To get an educator discount card simply apply at any store and provide them with an ICHE Educator ID card, or a receipt from curriculum purchases with your name on it.
Happy Shopping!
Jun 09
The 13th Annual Idaho State Homeschool Convention was a huge success. We are grateful to God for His mercy and direction. Our speakers were all amazing. We especially want to thank Heidi and Jay St. John, and Steve and Jane Lambert for providing us with excellent teaching on the topics of marriage, parenting and homeschooling. Lives were touched, marriages renewed and homeschools refreshed. Their timely message was well received.
We’d also like to thank Mary James, Connie Risser, Ken Frederick, Linda Patchin, Barry Peters, and Mary Ostyn for providing our attendees with informative workshops. All of them were well attended and helpful.
We would also like to give a huge thank you to Abbie Kircher and her team of 30 teen volunteers who provided us with an excellent children’s program. Their presentation on Saturday night was a joy to behold and brought tears to many eyes.
William Estrada brought a few Generation Joshua team members and together they provided us with an incredible teen program.Their iObject Grand Jury study tried and convicted some mafia bad guys and in the process of having fun important lessons were learned. Thank you, Will!
Thank you to the Depuy family for organizing our used curriculum sale, which once again completely filled a gymnasium. It was great!
Thanks to our vendors for bringing us wonderful products to make our homeschooling efforts blossom.
Grateful thanks to the many volunteers whose efforts lightened the load and enabled CHOIS to provide a great experience for everyone.
And finally, thank you to everyone who attended the convention. We hope that you were blessed!
Mark your calendars now for a used curriculum sale on May 31st, and the convention on June 1 & 2, 2012. Look forward to hearing our keynote speaker, Michael Farris, Esq. Chairman of Home School Legal Defense Association.
May 15
If you have registered for the convention and plan to attend the June 2nd, 1-6pm, Real Life Marriage Seminar could you please send us an email to let us know that you will be attending? We’re having trouble choosing the size of room to reserve, and this will help us very much. Email us at chois.marriage.seminar@gmail.com Thanks so much and see you at the convention!
May 10
The convention Children’s Program registration is now closed as we have reached the maximum number of children. Please see our policy on children attending with their parents. We still have 47 spaces available in our Teen program.
All of the used curriculum seller tables have been reserved, so please come looking for bargains on June 2nd from 10-12:30!!
May 09
All of the used curriculum sale tables have been reserved. Please come shopping for used books on Thursday, June 2nd, from 10-12:30 at the College Church of the Nazarene gymnasium, 504 E. Dewey St. in Nampa, Idaho.
There are currently FOUR spaces left in our children’s program and 50 spaces in our teen’s program, as of 7PM on the 10th of May. Registration for the children’s program will be closed as soon as we run out of space!
May 06
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization. The Roman Catholic family, who have been homeschooling their children for four years, were reported to the youth protection services (YPS) for neglect and had a four-day trial in November 2010. The judge in the case, Judge Nicole Bernier, ordered that the children remain in school or in day care until YPS officials approved a plan for socialization. However, because of apparent bias against homeschooling and these parents, this is unlikely to ever happen.