| Home Schooling is Popular | | | | can this be accomplished without English language |
| Home schooling is becoming increasingly popular. | | | | fluency? |
| Why? Because in some areas schools are too | | | | Using A TBL Approach |
| dangerous to consider. Parents want to have | | | | One of many possible scenarios is home schooling |
| more control over their children's learning | | | | using a TBL (Tasked-Based Learning) approach. In |
| environment. Schools in some districts lack | | | | this approach, learners are taught useable, |
| essential quality in resources and staff to | | | | marketable skills using English as the language of |
| effectively educate children for the challenges of | | | | instruction. In-demand skills such as Nursing Aids, |
| today's global society. With home schooling, | | | | Home Health Care Aides, Auto Mechanics, |
| parents are able to expand the learning platform | | | | Electrician Helpers, Carpentry and construction |
| of their children to an almost infinite degree. | | | | trade workers, Cooks and even Teacher Aides |
| School districts provide the required curriculum for | | | | could be brought up to marketable standards |
| children so that parents don't go off on a | | | | rather quickly. Certainly most would require less |
| non-productive tangent. This also helps to ensure | | | | than a year of preparation to begin "giving back" |
| that home-schooled children are on track with | | | | to the economy that many now only abuse to |
| their peers of the same age and grade level. | | | | the detriment of tax-payers and home owners |
| What about those cases in which children have a | | | | who currently carry an over-burdened share of |
| first language other than English? Though not yet | | | | the economy. |
| in supremely large numbers, the growing | | | | Using a TBL approach, several problems would be |
| discovery of alarming numbers of children with | | | | addressed at the same time.o Immigrants would |
| illegal immigrant status raises the question of | | | | learn a marketable skillo Immigrants would learn |
| English as a Second Language (ESL) | | | | Englisho Immigrants would regain their personal |
| home-schooling and literacy. The task of | | | | pride and dignityo Parents could set a valuable |
| developing fluency in English stretches from the | | | | example for their childreno Children could be |
| children through the parents and even the | | | | eased more into mainstream American societyo |
| grandparents in many cases. Immigrant families | | | | Children could more easily acquire useable English |
| are cash-strapped. Often due to low levels of | | | | language skills |
| educational achievement, lack of marketable skills | | | | There are already quantities of online and |
| or even illiteracy, parents feel they are "trapped". | | | | low-residency English language and other programs |
| To earn more they must learn more, but how | | | | available for both adults and children. |