This on-line support group has been created to encourage, help, support, and share with members of the Meramec Valley Homeschool Association. This YAHOO group is one way to keep up to date with activities, classes, and events of the MVHA homeschool group.

It is an inclusive group, and all are welcome. Our primary purpose is to provide social and educational activities for our children.

To join, you will be asked to fill out a small questionaire about your homeschooling experience and why you are interested in joining. Once you fill it out, it will be reviewed by our group moderator. This is done for SAFETY reasons only, and not for purposes of discrimination. *Due to the very personal nature of this list, LURKING will NOT be tolerated*

All Yahoo group postings must have a subject line that states the exact content, i.e. park day change, skiing field trip, books for sale,etc. Please remember if you have something to share or announce that is well in the future, please only announce in appropriate intervals, i.e. don't post daily or weekly about a field trip 3 months away; when monthly would be fine. This way everyone knows what the post is about; will have reminders as the activity approaches, and not be overwhelmed with too many e-mails.

Also, it should go without saying but we must say - Be considerate of others, no rude talk, bad language, teasing, racism, etc. PLEASE - treat others as you want to be treated. Also, NO spamming other members and no advertisements or solicitations will be permitted. Please note: if you have homeschool goods, or homeschool services, to sell/give away; you may post monthly. No political or religious items may be posted, unless they directly pertain to home education. The group moderator will delete any of these type of messages and the member will have one warning before being deleted from the Yahoo Group.

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