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How do I get started homeschooling?

1) Register your student(s) with either the local superintendent or the CRS of your choice.

2) Research and select curriculum for each child, or enroll in a specific home study course.

3) Inform yourself as to the educational, historical, political, and legal aspects of home education so that you may adequately explain (or defend) your home school to anyone who questions what your are doing.

4) To facilitate numbers 2 and 3 above, and to make your home school experience easier and more pleasant, join THEA and benefit from the support our chapters and support groups provide!

For local assistance contact the nearest THEA chapter.

    
     

    
"The family is man's first and basic school. Parents have very extensively educated their child before the child ever sets foot inside a school. Moreover, every mother regularly performs the most difficult of all educational tasks, one which no school performs. The mother takes a small child, incapable of speaking or understanding a word in any language, and, in a very short time, teaches the mother tongue. This is a very difficult and painstaking task, but it comes simply and naturally in the family as an expression of the mother's (parent's) love and the child's response to that love. At every stage of the child's life, the educational function of the home is the basic educational power in the life of the child."
  
- R. J. Rushdoony Law and Liberty
Getting Started
 
People start home schooling every day in Tennessee. You may have questions about how to start, how to enroll your child to be in compliance with the compulsory attendance laws, or where to go to get curriculum.

THEA was formed to help you get started and continue teaching your children as we work to protect homeschooling freedom. Since 1984, we've been helping families across the state by providing tested, common sense advice to help them launch their home schools.

Tennessee law defines home schooling as "parent or guardians teaching their children". That definition is simple, direct and straight forward. If you are a parent, you can home school in Tennessee.

If you are ready to start home schooling now, what describes you best? Click on the topic below to get started:
"I believe that parents, not government, have the primary responsibility for the education
of their children."
 
- President Ronald Reagan
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