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A comment on Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead of a physical school?.

Re:Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead o... by itronitron on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:28AM (#24856558)
I would (and do) for middle school and high school because my options for in-person are less than ideal (private schools that really fail at effective communication and discipline.)

I'd like Khanacademy to add a feature that allows parents to actually task assignments to their students/children. That seems like a major gap now. So we're currently enrolled in a different online program that has much more structure, but is still self-paced.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead o... by 8589934591 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:39AM (#24856966)
> we're currently enrolled in a different online program that has much more structure, but is still self-paced

Which one is that? Do you have any recommendations?

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Re:Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead o... by itronitron on Thursday October 22, 2020 @09:08AM (#24857583)
The following link lists about 25, not sure if they all offer degrees. Some are affiliated with existing private schools, and others with universities (Both Texas Tech Uni K-12 and UTHS teach the standard curriculum for the State of Texas.)

https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/top/online-high-schools/

There is also a range of how much classroom interaction they require (some have a lot, others none) so picking one depends on what the student prefers for their learning environment.

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