With the goal of living to God’s glory, we seek to ensure that our practices, activities and events do not conflict with a Christian worldview, including the primacy of the family in God’s plan.
The North Jersey Home Schoolers Association, Inc. is an organization of Christian home educating families seeking to help each other in their education efforts. The purpose of NJHSA is to provide support through disseminating information, furnishing a means of contact with other homeschooling families, and sponsoring various activities and events to enhance the homeschool experience. With the goal of living to God’s glory, we seek to ensure that our practices, activities and events do not conflict with a Christian worldview, including the primacy of the family in God’s plan.
Parents have a God-given responsibility and intrinsic
right to provide the best possible education for their children. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 speaks to this responsibility. “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
Each homeschooling family is encouraged, given specific knowledge of their child(ren), to formulate its own educational philosophy and curriculum by a process that includes prayer, research, investigation, and interaction with other homeschooling families and support organizations.
NJHSA does not endorse any particular view of homeschooling, curricula or teaching methods nor does it provide curricula or services, such as testing or record keeping, for its members.
Many of the events and activities endorsed by NJHSA encourage the attendance and participation of the entire family. NJHSA endorsed activities are generally not intended to be “drop off” activities, rather there is an expectation of parental involvement.
We recognize that we need to diligently participate in the political process of our nation and state to safeguard our right to educate our children at home. NJHSA will strive to provide information on legislative actions affecting home schooling and encourage the membership to lobby legislators through letters, calls, and lawful and peaceful demonstrations whenever appropriate.
Care should be exercised when using the name of NJHSA, not to associate it with causes not supported or endorsed by NJHSA. Individuals, in expressing their personal opinions, should not presume to speak for NJHSA or its members. The NJHSA Board reserves the right to remove any comments that it deems offensive, potentially damaging to NJHSA, its members or the home education community from the NJHSA website or material written for any NJHSA sponsored event.
NJHSA desires that all practices, events, activities and publications reflect Philippians 4:8: “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy…” in order that “whatever (we) do, whether in word or deed, (we) do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him (Col. 3:17).
The conduct of parents, children, and youth involved in NJHSA events and activities should reflect the love of Christ. Parents or chaperones will be held accountable for their children’s behavior. Children and youth must show appropriate respect for adults and each other as well as for one another’s personal property and belongings. This includes care and respect for the property of any facility being used or visited.