SHARE Homeschool Support Group

09/19/2026

ATTN 10th/11th gr for PSAT/NMSQT: REPLY ONLY TO: Horizon Educational Systems at: [email protected] by 10/10/26

The PSAT (pre-SAT) fully DIGITAL exam will be given Saturday, 10/17/2026 for HES students and homeschoolers 10th-11th graders (private and public school students may join in). Please SHARE the news! (The PSAT fully digital exam may be used as Option #5 for the homeschool annual evaluations or end-of-year HES evaluation.) Scores are available 12/6/26.

Testing Site: Bradenton Christian Reformed Church, 4208 26th St West, Bradenton
8:30am- (should end by Noon) (bring your own computer/laptop/chrome with "Bluebook" being downloaded prior to test date - info provided)

on Saturday, October 17, 2026 MUST pre-pay. $35 (incl administration) It is only offered once a year. 10th & 11th graders only
PAY by 10/10/2026, but PLEASE pre-register asap!

20 total exams available for the PSAT/NMSQT Digital exam: first-come-first-seated, however 11th graders are given PRIORITY due to National Merit Scholarship. We also accept non-homeschooling students IF seating is available.

Contact Debbie D***s 941-751-4501 or 941-920-1645 cell (and Zelle)
or email: [email protected] Horizon Educational Systems) Paypal as friend
Test administration is included.

If more than one student in the family, PLEASE use separate email addresses.

MANDATORY INFO needed for PSAT registration with HES:
NAME of student: Birthdate: Grade Level: Name of Parent

Mailing Address:
Home/Cell Phone(s): Email Address of Student:
Private/Public School College Board #: ____________
OR: Homeschooler registered with the County: ______ if so, the Code is: 991099

payable to: Horizon Educational Systems or Paypal as friend or add $2 : [email protected] or mail to:
HES, PO Box 10826, Bradenton, FL 34282
OR Zelle 941-920-1645 Debra D***s
OR
PAY at the homeschool skating sessions at Astro Bradenton Skating Center (cash/check) 11am-1pm Fri. 10/4/26

Public high schools and private schools offer the PSAT testing on other Wednesday dates -- contact them directly.
National Merit and/or National Achievement Scholarships may be awarded based on the 11th grader's test results. some colleges give full scholarships to National Merit award winners.... ie: Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Cassidy Johnson, HES/SHARE 2014 grad, received such a scholarship for having earned a National Merit commendation.

IMPORTANT INFO at:
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/in-school-assessments/what-to-bring
of what TO BRING and what NOT TO bring.

PRACTICE PSAT: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/prep.html

About PSAT/NMSQT https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt
The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a program cosponsored by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). http://www.nationalmerit.org/ It's a standardized test that provides firsthand practice for the SAT®. It also gives you a chance to enter NMSC scholarship programs and gain access to college and career planning tools.
The PSAT/NMSQT measures:
Critical reading skills
Math problem-solving skills
Writing skills
You have developed these skills over many years, both in and out of school. This test doesn't require you to recall specific facts from your classes.
The most common reasons for taking the PSAT/NMSQT are to:
Receive feedback on your strengths and weaknesses on skills necessary for college study. You can then focus your preparation on those areas that could most benefit from additional study or practice.
See how your performance on an admissions test might compare with that of others applying to college.
Enter the competition for scholarships from NMSC (grade 11).
PRACTICE PSAT online at: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/preparing
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/preparing/practice-tests

MUST DOWNLOAD the "Bluebook" prior to test date.,





The PSAT/NMSQT – SAT Suite | College Board
The PSAT/NMSQT can qualify you for the National Merit Scholarship Program and other scholarships.
Thank you!
Debbie D***s, Principal
Horizon Educational Systems 941-920-1645 cell
[email protected] College Board #101669
www.HorizonEduSys.wordpress.com

HES is a non-traditional private school to provide families a private school option for use in their parent-directed education programs.

08/08/2026

Pro-Life Pro Homeschool Recommendations for 2026 Republican Primary - Manatee area

8/8/26Please ignore if uninterested in my recommendations for the 2026 REPUBLICAN Primary in Manatee County area. Please SHARE if you value my input as a Christian, PRO-LIFE, PRO-HOME EDUCATION, and Republican (for 46+ years) ... after careful research of pro-life and Christian questionaires and personal knowledge of the candidate issues/background, along with trusted endorsements

RECOMMENDATIONs for August 18, 2026 REPUBLICAN PrimaryUS SENATE: Ashley MoodyUS CONGRESS #16: Sydney GrutersFLORIDA GOVERNOR: Byron Donalds & (or Jay Collins)CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: Blaise IngogliaCOMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE: Wilton SimpsonSTATE SENATOR #22: James Buchanan

STATE REPRESENTATIVE #71: Jordan Varnadore ^
.... #72: William "Bill" Conerly

MANATEE COUNTY COMMISSIONER
.... District #1: Leland Taylor or Elizabeth Arnold
.... District #2: Amanda Ballard
.... District #4: Mike Rahn <
.... District #6: Tara Poulton

MANATEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD:
.... District #2: Margi Nanney
.... District #5: Camden Bedinghaus** or Jonathon Mullis

(and definitely NOT their opponent)@& 100% A+ rating of Pro-Life Susan B. Anthony and Conservative Review. 0% rating from the re-named National Abortion Rights Action League, RFFA.\\Fishback's website promises to appoint the first "Homeschool Commissioner" - I am strongly opposed to further regulation of "homeschool"\\**Cam Bedinghaus was keynote speaker of the SHARE High School Graduation (my family knows him). He's the local Turning Point USA director.**Blessings,

Debbie D***s, Coordinator of SHARE (since 1995)

and Principal of Horizon Educational Systems (since 2001)Christian, Pro-Life, Pro-Home Education, Pro-Family, Pro 2A

P.S. < I will NOT be voting for a candidate with history of VIOLENCE towards women. < I will BE voting for his opponent.

^I will NOT be voting for candidate who formerly LED the local Democrat party (supporting Obama and Clinton), who ran as a Democrat for Manatee County Commissioner in 2018 (receiving $$ from the largest ABORTION provider Planned Parenthood) and who donated $$ to Democrat(s) ONLY TWO YEARS AGO! ^ I will be voting for his always PRO-LIFE opponent, whom I've known for most of his life. will NOT be voting for candidate who was formerly in SHARE and left because she did not NOT like the "pro-life" stance.@

Falsely accusing someone of being under investigation is a dangerous form of weaponization. This claim is not true. Congressman Byron Donalds is not under investigation. https://t.co/QW26cT7b4d

— DOJ Rapid Response () August 7, 2026 per Fishback's false allegations.

07/30/2026

Florida Home Education Foundation (since 1984)

What is Home Education? Parent-Directed Education, and it's very important to faithfully protect that definition. Here's why.

07/20/2026

07/04/2026

I BEG YOU to watch Drive Thru History on the founders of the USA.
Too many people either do not know and/or appreciate the TRUE history of our beloved nation, the greatest country on the earth... a Constitutional Republic, based upon Christianity.....
200 years ago John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th.
*****
Drive Thru History is found: prime Video, Xuno, order on Amazon, Pluto, Netflix, DriveThruHistory.com, pureFlix, Tubi.

06/29/2026

Please read and discuss, then investigate the signers and founders of the USA. Celebrating 250 YEARS!

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:
In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton



North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn



South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton



Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton



Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton



Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean



New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris



New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark



New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple



Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry



Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery



Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott



New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton

06/09/2026

IMPORTANT TO be truly informed BEFORE you vote!

ugust 18, 2026 – Primary Election

Voter Registration Deadline: Monday, July 20, 2026
Deadline to request a Vote by Mail ballot to be mailed: 5:00 pm Thursday, August 6, 2026
Deadline to return Vote by Mail ballot: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 by 7:00 pm
Early Voting: Saturday, August 8, 2026 through Sunday, August 16, 2026
8:30 am to 6:00 pm daily
Election day: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Polls open 7:00 am – Polls close 7:00 pm
November 3, 2026 – General Election
(Including City of Anna Maria, City of Bradenton, City of Bradenton Beach,
City of Holmes Beach, and City of Palmetto)

Voter Registration Deadline: Monday, October 5, 2026
Deadline to request a Vote by Mail ballot to be mailed: 5:00 pm Thursday, October 22, 2026
Deadline to return Vote by Mail ballot: Tuesday, November 3, 2026 by 7:00 pm
Early Voting: Monday, October 19, 2026 through Sunday, November 1, 2026
8:30 am to 6:30 pm daily
Election day: Tuesday, November 3, 2026 Polls open 7:00 am – Polls close 7:00 pm

05/26/2026

REPLY ONLY to [email protected] or 941-920-1645

SHARE will be having its annual BOOK FAIR on Friday morning, May 29, 2026, 9am-11:30am, includes curriculum, educational supplies, etc.

LOCATION: the gym of Bradenton Christian Reformed Church, 4208 26th Street West. FREE ENTRY! (a few blocks north of Cortez Road)
~40 table spaces available-- buying/selling/freebies
FREE CHILD supervision, ages 3-9 onsite. (movies, coloring, cars, games, lego blocks -- all pre-cleaned and wiped down between usage)
Love offering made for the use of the A/C electricity, clean-up
ATTN VENDORS: MUST make reservation (set-up time is at 8am) and MUST stay until 11:30am
Email [email protected] to register 941-920-1645
Pay asap: $8/vendor
([email protected] is the paypal (as friend or add $1 fee) and Zelle 941-920-1645 (or cash/check to SHARE, 2616 27th Ave Dr W, Bradenton 34205)

Vendors must provide their email and cell phone #, and PRE-REGISTER prior to May 25th (or until the 40 tables are reserved - first-come, first-reserved).
S.H.A.R.E. WILL HAVE A Concession stand as a fundraiser--- so, PLEASE come hungry for breakfast/brunch - ��
Many thanks to BCRC for their hospitality and to Susan Vreman for setting it up.
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The SHARE High School Graduation is that evening, 7pm, held at West Bradenton Baptist Church.

05/12/2026

This is especially true of homeschooling mommas