Idea: Pay to have someone homeschool your kids for you?

You’re basically talking about tutoring or a nanny. I’d start by looking into those markets first.

in-person or online?

something I've really learned in the last few months, it's really really hard to get kids to learn via laptop screen. They hate it, they don't sit still, it takes tons of interventions to get them to pay attention, and at the end of the day they aren't learning much (although they do learn a lot about doing their own tech support).

If it's in-person teachers then that sounds possible, similar to BusyBees. Would be great if the app was live now, might not be as much demand when kids go back to schools.

I think micro-schooling will become more popular.

I have toyed with the idea myself, tried and failed to do it a few times. It gets really expensive to hire just one person for your kids. Then trying to get a group of kids/parents together to share the cost is even harder.

Basically, I can't be bothered, lol.

I'd rather send them to a small private school instead.

I found one locally that is doing part time schooling, so might try that. Pandemic allowing.

I have several children. The older ones have recently graduated from school, but they have only been studying online for about a year. I can say that the training is at a low level compared to full-time training. There is no contact between the teacher and the student, so I am pleased that the coronavirus ends. My children will go to school to get knowledge. I also have a son who recently turned 5 years old. And I've heard about a preschool program that improves a child's skills and prepares them for school. I find it https://beeallyoucanbee.org/homeschool-curriculum/a-complete-guide-to-all-in-one-preschool-homeschool-curriculum/ .Here I think whether it is worth trying to buy this for a child or not?

I'm a homeschooling dad to a 7 year old. I'll tell you that we spend a good chunk of our (lower-middle-class Canadian) income on part-time private schooling, books, materials, (recent addition) online course with outschool.com, and other things to ensure our son gets a good education.

We enrolled him in a small private school a few days a week, starting a couple years back... a school I briefly stepped into as director when it was in danger of shutting down (which it did a month later due to covid anyway).

Let me say that in my brief time as director of a small unaccredited private school for a handful of up to 7 yo homeschooled kids: the personal dynamics (between leadership, parents, and teachers), was by far the most challenging part. Imagine an "overinvolved" parent on a regular school, and then imagine that they are so adamant about controlling their kids educational environment that they choose to take the bulk of the work on themselves... But that depends on the amount of time the kids are spending. In choosing an outschool course, just browsing them with my son and looking at reviews was enough to commit.

I'd be happy to answer any Qs. Would need more specifics before I could help you validate.

Look into Outschool.com. Andrew Warner did an interview with the founder recently.

I think this is a good idea to pursue. I'm more thinking about combination of remote work + homeschooling. Parent-Remote workers like to travel, but the issue is that they can only do it for short periods, because their kids have to go to school. Also, kids need peers so just staring at laptop screen is a nightmare for them. So ideally, some kind of micro-schools would be perfect.

I'd see it as some remote-coliving-homeschools. I've actually have seen such an offer in my home country. A place in the mountains was offering accomodation + child care + internet. So parents could work at their jobs and they were taking care of their children. After work they could just enjoy the area and go for some hike.

As Digital Nomad scene is already growing nicely, Digital Nomad Parents would definitely like to join it if the conditions would allow them.

I know that my description is a little bit vague, but I'm in the rush 🤓

I built one of the first online schools for kids about ten years ago. They shut down after a few years but I think it's an idea whose time has finally come. The low end of the market is already saturated with programs like k12.com but I think there's quite a bit of room for growth in the home school and private tutoring markets. The major objection a lot of parents have is that they have to be home to supervise / monitor their children while learning online (at least for some subset of children - particularly the younger ones). This is difficult while the parent is also trying to work from home. Solve that problem and price it right and you'll have an unstoppable force.