Welcome to the Official site for the Perry County Homeschoolers
We are a Christian, non-profit, volunteer ministry committed to giving information, guidance, support and encouragement to homeschooling families in Perry County and surrounding counties. We believe God, in His Word, has given parents the authority and responsibility to educate their children in a godly manner. We seek to nurture each parent and child within the group and without. While we do not require that members be Christians, members should be respectful of our Christian Beliefs.
Homeschooling is a great way to teach your children while instilling them with morals and family values.
Support Group Policies:
- Membership dues are currently $10.00 per family. This is a special prorated fee that will give you membership in PCHS from now through August 31, 2023 (regular rate is $15 per year).
- A Mandatory meeting is generally held in June to plan the upcoming school year and collect dues.
- Members are expected to participate in at least one activity by volunteering to coordinate or serve in an event or activity. New Members receive a one year grace from service.
We encourage you to become a member to receive the full benefits of the group. Feel free to contact us at pchomeschoolers@gmail.com for more information.
If you would like to join, please click on the picture below.
7TH ANNUAL HOMESCHOOL USED BOOK & CURRICULUM SALE
PERRY COUNTY HOMESCHOOLERS 7TH ANNUAL HOMESCHOOL NEW/USED BOOK & CURRICULUM SALE!
JUNE 1-2, 2023
(ALL DETAILS IN ATTACHED PICTURE)
Concessions available!
Baked goods, snacks, and drinks available Thursday night and all day Friday.
Beef hotdogs and pizza available Thursday 6:00-6:30pm.
Breakfast items Friday 8-9am
Beef hotdogs, pizza, and beef BBQ available from 11-1 on Friday
Notary on site Friday 10am-12pm! Bring your affidavits for the 2023-2024 school year and have them notarized for only $5 per family
Link to the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1306304653560684
Our quarterly Community Aid clothing drive lines up with this date.
Help local families while supporting PCHS at the same time!
-Bring a clothing donation for the drive and have you family entered in a drawing for a one-year ULTIMATE membership to SchoolhouseTeachers.com. Drawing will take place at 1pm Friday. Winner will be contacted via phone/email if not present at drawing. You will have access to hundreds of courses for your entire family (PreK-12), streaming videos and ebooks, online interactive content, downloadable lessons, a year of the print subscription of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, and much more! All in time to start planning for the 2023-2024 schoolyear!
Running low on fuel?
Fill up your tank with free encouragement, inspiration, and tips for success at our upcoming restoration mini conference!
Perry County Homeschoolers is offering families the chance to attend one of four free sessions with experts on Thursday and Friday of their 7th Annual Homeschool Used Book and Curriculum Sale. Different topics will be covered to help your children, teens, and family succeed.
Pre-Registration is required for the seminars and attendance is limited.
We are asking attendees to register for just one session so as many families as possible have the opportunity to benefit from this free event. If there are open spots, we will allow you to attend a second session with "at the door" admission that day.
Visit https://www.homeschool-life.com/403/iform/102299 to register
"MAKING HOMESCHOOLING POSSIBLE IN PA"
LOCAL FUNDRAISER FOR PA HOMESCHOOLERS!
HSLDA Compassion will be hosting an information table and fundraiser at the Perry County Homeschoolers 7th Annual Homeschool Used Book and Curriculum Sale. Information about the program and how it helps homeschool families will be available.
THERE WILL BE BAKED GOODS FOR SALE, 100% OF THE PROCEEDS OF WHICH WILL GO DIRECTLY TO HELPING HOMESCHOOL FAMILIES IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Want to support those same homeschool families without compromising your waistline? Tax deductible monetary donations will also be accepted and there will be one table of curriculum for sale designated to benefit the same. Thanks to a generous Seed Money Matching Grant, any funds raised that day (up to $2000) will be matched dollar for dollar so your contribution, no matter how small, will go twice as far!
Maybe you would like information on how you could become an ambassador. Feel free to ask!
PCHS Yearly Business/Planning Meeting
The Perry County Homeschoolers yearly planning meeting is coming soon! You don't want to miss it!
PLEASE READ ALL DETAILS LISTED BELOW:
The yearly business/planning meeting will be held Tuesday, June 6th, 6:00 p.m. at one of the Millerstown Community Park Pavilions (on the pool side down by the river)..
In the event of heavy rain or winds (we are under-roof, so we will not cancel simply for rain), we will postpone until Thursday, June 8th, same time. I will post any changes here on FB and email all registrants directly.
While it is best to attend the meeting without your kids in tow, do not let your children's presence prevent you from attending. The pavilion is located directly adjacent to a small playground (swings and slide), and your children may play there if you are okay with that. THERE WILL NOT BE CHILDCARE AVAILABLE, YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY. In the event of rain, please bring something else to occupy your children at the picnic tables.
Yearly financials will be discussed along with events and field trips for the 2023-2024 school year, results of the curriculum sale, and much more! Please bring any ideas you have for fields trips, social events, etc.
If you have friends who are looking for a local support group, this would be a good time for them to come and see if our group would be a possible fit for their family. And if they decide to join, they can pay their dues for the upcoming year, too! They don't have to live in Perry County to be a member, either. Our members are from all over Central PA, located in 6 different counties!
Current members can pay their renewals for the 2023-2024 year, also.
A few snacks will be available. You can bring something to share if you like. The group will provide bottled water, plates, napkins, and plastic wear.
IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY A PCHS MEMBER, PLEASE SIGN UP ON THE GROUP CALENDAR IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
Everyone else, please go to the following link to sign up (this is the public registration form):
https://www.homeschool-life.com/403/iform/94628
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us at pchomeschoolers@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
Let PCHS Help You Make the World Your Classroom
Overview of PA Homeschool Law
June
The following is a snapshot of our June calendar. Members have access to the full calendar including details and sign-ups.
SchoolhouseTeachers.com
It wasn't until compulsory education became widespread that “homeschooling” became the unusual option.
But IS keeping children home from school actually unusual or unnatural? Is homeschooling a radical new experiment . . . or would that be public schooling?
From time immemorial most children were taught at home. They learned trades and skills from their parents as they lived and worked alongside them, but they also learned so much more: “Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching” (Proverbs 1:8, ESV). Parents were expected to train up their children with all the knowledge they themselves possessed—from moral and religious training to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sometimes they hired tutors to help with difficult subjects, but the parents ultimately took full charge of their own children's education.
Homeschooling has been happening longer—
much longer—than compulsory education introduced in the 1800s.
Any online search for “famous homeschoolers” will bring such names as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Mozart, Florence Nightingale, Booker T. Washington, and many more.
That quick tour of history reveals that parents have been educating their children right at home throughout the ages, and doing so very successfully.
Kids learned at home as did the majority of others since the beginning of time when God instituted family with parents as natural teachers. Knowing home education is no trend or fad, but rather an enduring practice, makes public school, which has only been around for a fraction of history, sadly resemble an experiment.
So, is educating and training up (discipling) children at home really odd after all, or could it be that removing them from parents and home for the majority of their days by sending them away to learn (and be discipled) is what's really unnatural?
Because every student is discipled by someone. Shouldn't it be you?
Homeschooling can be challenging. It can be expensive, time-consuming, and confusing to choose classes and curricula for multiple students. We are writing to tell you that your Homeschool Organization has partnered with SchoolhouseTeachers.com which will provide all the courses you need for homeschooling each of your preschool through graduating 12th-grade students at the discounted annual price of $189 (you save $80). With hundreds of online courses, lesson plans, quizzes, tests, answer keys, certificates of completion, and streaming videos, your annual SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership will ensure you have a full-spectrum, non-Common Core curriculum platform to confidently educate your children at home.
Membership is good for your whole family—including grandparents—no matter how many children you have. Because everything is included online, there is no need to buy textbooks. PLUS, there are no per class, no per child, nor any other hidden fees. You can also generate quarterly report cards for each student and access help with transcript creation for your high schoolers. The regular price is $267.97, but by using the join button below, you'll save over $80 and pay a total of only $189 for the year. By the way . . . see the print magazines above? You'll receive a print subscription to The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, with a fresh issue delivered each quarter as long as you remain a member.
SchoolhouseTeachers.com contains nearly every subject imaginable—art history, drawing, computer technology, foreign languages, history, language arts, math, music, science, and loads of electives. Let your kids help pick out their own courses!
Please sign up today for your family's membership to SchoolhouseTeachers.com by clicking the red JOIN button above. You will save over $90 off retail.
“A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.” (Luke 6:40, ESV)
TOS Magazine
Get the premier trade publication for the homeschooling community delivered right to your home. Released quarterly in beautiful glossy print, each issue is packed full of advice, resources, and encouragement. Our enhanced magazine format includes BONUS digital content, which means MORE reading material for you than ever before!
PCHS Quarterly Clothing Drive
Got Clothing?

Clean out your unwanted/outgrown clothing while helping PCHS at the same time!
PCHS has joined a virtual partnership with Community Aid. Although we no longer have a physical donation bin, we will be collecting clothing donations which will be purchased by Community Aid to benefit our support group on a quarterly basis!
These drives will occur the first Friday of March, June, September, and December. These dates usually line up with our monthly gym classes or yearly book sale, so the drives will therefore be conducted at those locations. I can even arrange a pickup of your donations if needed! Or if you will be seeing Janel Martin or Diamond Hile at a function within the two weeks prior to the drive date, you may give your donations directly to them.
Please keep shoes bagged separately from clothing.
Do you suddenly have a large amount of clothing to get rid of, or did your children all simultaneously grow out of their clothes in between scheduled drive dates? If a drive is not scheduled to occur soon, contact me directly at pchomeschoolers@gmail.com and I can coordinate a time and place to get your donations.
Support PCHS with the BoxTops4Education Program
Support PCHS with your normal grocery shopping!
If you already have a boxtops account, you can now change the school group you are supporting to PCHS.
If you are new to boxtops, you can choose to support PCHS right away, but first contact me to ask for a referral code. Each time someone new signs up for the boxtops app, PCHS gets a bonus if you use the referral code I can send you.
Click the photo below to email PCHS and request a referral code so you can signup and help support our group.
HSLDA
We recommend that homeschooling families join HSLDA.
Even if you never experience legal trouble yourself, your HSLDA membership will help enable other homeschooling families to get the legal help they need and will help defend our right to homeschool here in central PA.
Membership in HSLDA also gives you personal access to the legal staff; HSLDA's experienced high school, special needs, and Toddlers to Tweens consultants; and discounts through HSLDA's PerX program.
PCHS members SAVE $15 on the HSLDA membership price when you enter our Discount Group code on the HSLDA membership form!