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Homeschooling in this country has seen many changes within the last twenty years. Before this and during, many people looked at it as a weird institution embraced only by radicals. But now, it has been seen in a keen and credible light, especially in the backdrop of our struggling public school system. There was a time in the not-too-distant past when homeschooling parents were considered an oddity. Their families were viewed as socially awkward, keeping indoors all day.

Today, there are home school network groups, cooperatives, and other such support groups consisting of home school families.

In the state of Texas, homeschooling has enjoyed a great degree of freedom thanks to an active coalition resulting in a friendlier legislation than in most other states. The Texas Home School Coalition began its inception in 1986 as a political action committee lobbying the interests of homeschooling in Austin, Texas. As a response to the numerous lawsuits against homeschoolers across the state and harmful legislation being introduced in Austin, there was a need for a statewide political organization to work for the rights of homeschoolers in the state of Texas.

Since then it has grown to a multi-faceted organization responsible for helping new homeschoolers across the state as well as maintaining a network of information and communication between and among the leadership of regional home school organizations, local support groups, and individual homeschooling families. The Texas Home School Coalition also hosts a statewide conference held every summer in The Woodlands, Texas. My family and I have had the blessing and privilege of attending this conference for many summers now. We’ve been treated to workshops conducted by speakers in various fields and topics of homeschooling. In between workshops, we squeeze our way through the masses to enter a vast hall of vending booths promoted by publishers of various home school curricula.

People from all parts of Texas have converged on this great scene, a sign of the times. A symbol of change. Through political and legislative antagonism, weathering social opposition, homeschooling in Texas is one of the last bastions of freedom and independence in our country.

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If you can’t feel the buzz that wraps itself around Friday Nights, you’re not in West Texas. It’s finally here, and this year I think we’re all looking forward to cheering on our favorite high school football team.

After all, with a down national economy, drought, and no relief in sight we haven’t had much to cheer for lately. Still, fear not fellow West Texans before you know it we will all be breathing in the crisp fall air, nuzzling a styrofoam cup of hot chocolate and listening to the clatter of snare drums as the marching band prepares to set the mood for our section of the world’s fall classic. In our neck of the woods it doesn’t matter if your town’s population is 100,000 or 100. Our common denominator has been and probably will always be the passion we share for a game played with an oblong ball covered in pig’s skin. As I was reflecting on the excitement of it all I began to ask myself why this game has become the essence of our land? The subject of novels that became big screen depictions of a people who should by all accounts be characterized by the natural resources we’re so good at extracting from the earth. Hmmm....

In a million years archaeologists will unearth and reassemble a coliseum of sorts that strangely appears to be a people’s attempt to tune themselves into the universe by watching their young warriors compete on a field that’s boundaries are set by two very large tuning forks. And the truth is, their speculations won’t be that far off.

You see, in a symphony orchestra it’s every musician’s job to play harmoniously with his/her fellow musicians in order to accomplish the ultimate goal, harmonious music. If just one musician in a section of is not in tune, the integrity of the entire group is jeopardized.

(Now...the analogy that glues my rant to the people’s expectations.)

In a world that’s a symphony orchestra comprised of many different parts all working together to create a harmonious universe. The Permian Basin is its own unique section. The part we play is football, and we gather on Friday nights between our giant tuning forks at forte breathing through rests and slurring through sixteenth notes. Our maestros pace the sidelines. The scoreboards determines our time signature. (insert fight song here)

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