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Interesting, especially given the funding source. One of the parents described this potential conflict well: > "We're not the constituency of the school," a pa

Interesting, especially given the funding source. One of the parents described this potential conflict well: > "We're not the constituency of the school," a parent of a former AltSchool student told Business Insider. "We were not the ones [Ventilla] had to be accountable to." But I'm rooting for AltSchool. Educational institutions have a way of falling into orthodoxies of tradition and standardization that don't necessarily serve the interests of students — especially in a changing world. It's good to see a little bit of experimentation, so long as it follows the right incentive structure.

StudentStuff 9y ago
$27k a year for school is crazy expensive, especially in the lower grade levels. 20+ kids paying that is a cool half million dollars, and for what appears to be substandard education. Then again, nearly every private school I or my friends has attended has been a bad learning environment, you pay for crappier teachers (that couldn't get hired by the school district) and get to deal with whatever tertiary motivating factor these schools have (religion, computer free Montessori schools, or experimenting with children ala AltSchool). Worse yet, in Seattle private schools are bringing back horrible diseases that were once eradicated. Nasty AF that private schools are a okay with spreading and breeding crippling diseases.