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I'd welcome more tools to enable home after-schooling and home summer schooling. A lot of the after school/summer school in person offerings are pretty expensi

I'd welcome more tools to enable home after-schooling and home summer schooling. A lot of the after school/summer school in person offerings are pretty expensive and usually pretty sports centric. Full home schooling I feel could easily burn out even the most hard working parent - as there's little time for getting groceries, etc. done. And lack of socialization in the childs cohort is an issue. I think more online tools for prepping for science fairs and other academic competitions would be great. More tools like Khan academy would be great - I'd love it if there were resources that were able to introduce real biology, chemistry, physics prior to high school.

actfrench 4y ago
Thank you for these great thoughts and questions somethoughts. Awesome handle, btw Actually I think about homeschooling more as a movement and ideology of greater involvement in education than a replacement to school. In fact, I call it “modular learning” where families can choose a variety of modules to compose their child’s education including school ! The burnout factor is real but I think that when you give yourself freedom to optimize on academics , social and childcare, you might find it’s lesss of a burnout than the grind of early morning wake-up’s, after school pickups , homework and pta meetings. I’ve written a lot about curriculum tools to support learning at home. With regards to physics and chemistry, it depends on your kid’s ages … some of my favorites off the top of my head are mystery science, blossom and roots science curriculum, quantum camp , mel science, Steve Spangler science
- somethoughts 4y ago
  As some one interested in the space - I definitely feel providing tools to parents for home after schooling is a much, much larger total addressable market size and likely more profitable. The average after school math tutor probably nets $90-$120 per hour, where the average school teacher probably nets $50 per hour.
  - troupe 4y ago
    If you are willing to do stuff online, the cost for a math tutor is only a fraction of what you described.
    - somethoughts 4y ago
      The real shame is that the material is all essentially free. The challenge as with all MOOCs and online (and offline) educational material is that its not fun and its hard to stay motivated. And this is true doubly so for kids. It'd be interesting to what extent the fees that normally would be spend on tutoring expenses could be spent on prizes or some other reward - without cheapening the experience (i.e. taking away their intrinsic love for learning by making it transactional and based on extrinsic rewards, etc.).
      - troupe 4y ago
        There have been some experiments of just giving kids cash for getting good grades in public schools. Motivating your children to do things that are good for them in the long run (brushing their teeth, not hitting other people, etc.) is very much in the wheel house of parenting.
cryptonector 4y ago
You are the tool. And there is sooo much content on the various video platforms. Teach them well.

actfrench 4y ago

Thank you for these great thoughts and questions somethoughts. Awesome handle, btw Actually I think about homeschooling more as a movement and ideology of greater involvement in education than a replacement to school. In fact, I call it “modular learning” where families can choose a variety of modules to compose their child’s education including school ! The burnout factor is real but I think that when you give yourself freedom to optimize on academics , social and childcare, you might find it’s lesss of a burnout than the grind of early morning wake-up’s, after school pickups , homework and pta meetings. I’ve written a lot about curriculum tools to support learning at home. With regards to physics and chemistry, it depends on your kid’s ages … some of my favorites off the top of my head are mystery science, blossom and roots science curriculum, quantum camp , mel science, Steve Spangler science

somethoughts 4y ago
As some one interested in the space - I definitely feel providing tools to parents for home after schooling is a much, much larger total addressable market size and likely more profitable. The average after school math tutor probably nets $90-$120 per hour, where the average school teacher probably nets $50 per hour.
- troupe 4y ago
  If you are willing to do stuff online, the cost for a math tutor is only a fraction of what you described.
  - somethoughts 4y ago
    The real shame is that the material is all essentially free. The challenge as with all MOOCs and online (and offline) educational material is that its not fun and its hard to stay motivated. And this is true doubly so for kids. It'd be interesting to what extent the fees that normally would be spend on tutoring expenses could be spent on prizes or some other reward - without cheapening the experience (i.e. taking away their intrinsic love for learning by making it transactional and based on extrinsic rewards, etc.).
    - troupe 4y ago
      There have been some experiments of just giving kids cash for getting good grades in public schools. Motivating your children to do things that are good for them in the long run (brushing their teeth, not hitting other people, etc.) is very much in the wheel house of parenting.

cryptonector 4y ago

You are the tool. And there is sooo much content on the various video platforms. Teach them well.