Homeschool Academic Teaching Support (HATS) is an educational organization in partnership with Hempfield
Homeschool Support Group and the Central Lancaster County Homeschool Choir and Orchestra.
HATS meets 30 weeks throughout the school year providing classes for the high school level
homeschooled student. There are currently 160 students from over 100 families participating in HATS. It is the policy of the Hempfield Homeschool Group and HATS that our programs
are for the traditional homeschooled student. We do not accept public charter cyberschool students for
enrollment in our programs.
Teachers are paid for their services. All other workers, including all organization personnel, are
volunteers. Bible quiz coaches also volunteer their time.
Due to church policy, parent monitors are required to be present during classes. Therefore, upon
registering for HATS, the parent must commit to monitor at HATS two times per class. If a student
registers for two classes, the parent must monitor four class sessions, etc., up to a maximum of ten
times. Each family is required to help with clean-up once. This will count toward your monitoring
requirement. Monitor assignments are posted weekly on the HATS web site www.hats.vze.com.
When a student is not in class but needs to remain in the building, the student must be in the Talk Room
or the Study Room. Parents may fulfill their monitor obligations while monitoring the Talk Room or the
Study Room.
Each class requires several hours of homework per week. Twice a year evaluation grades are given to
the student. HATS is an academic group. Parents are welcome to organize and facilitate social events or
field trip outings.
Updates on activities and monitor assignments are posted weekly on the website at www.hats.vze.com.
If you would like further information about HATS or to have a 2006-2007 class brochure sent to you when
it is published, please contact HATS Director Dawn Brandt at (717) 560-3963 or  .
HATS meets on Thursdays at:
Grace Baptist Church
1899 Marietta Ave.
Lancaster, PA 17603
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