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We spent a month making perfect posts. Planned days ahead. Polished. About 20 views each.
So we're done with that.
We're a homeschool family building a whole school for homeschool families. From now on you get the real thing: what we built, what broke, what we got wrong.
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Fourth-grade reading is back where it was in 1992. A federal count found the 2024 average wasn't significantly different from the first test. Thirty-plus years, one pace for every kid. The kids aren't the problem.
Day 2 of building out loud. Grades now speak your language. Homeschool for mastery and the checkpoint says Mastered. Pass/fail family, it says Passed. Grade family, you get a grade. You choose. The app follows.
A parent sent us a photo: a matching game was showing the same pair twice.
We went looking and found the same bug hiding in other lessons too. Fixed it once, and now it's fixed everywhere.
The best bug reports come from kitchen tables.
A federal count found American kids spend about 6.6 hours a day at school, 180 days a year.
Nobody asks how many of those hours are actually learning.
Every homeschool parent does.
New this week: kids can retake a chapter checkpoint as many times as they need. Only their best score counts.
While a retest is waiting, only that one subject pauses. Everything else keeps going.
A test is for finding out what a kid knows. Not for punishing a bad day.
We also saw what AI could do when it's used safely, with parents in charge. We think it's the biggest change to learning since the printing press, and it's here now, not someday.
When COVID hit, we asked a simple question: why not us? We found out we could do it better. More love, more focus, each kid learning as themselves instead of one of 25. We never went back.
School is a new invention. For most of history, families taught their own kids, and those kids built a country.
One idea, one paragraph. That's one of the oldest rules in writing, and a kid can learn it in an evening with a pencil. Here's the lesson, and where it comes from.
And typing: since 2011, students taking the national writing test (NAEP) have had to type their answers. Laptops for grades 8 and 12 in 2011, tablets for grades 4 and 8 in 2017.