A mom in eastern Kentucky once told us she was driving her two students to a McDonald's parking lot four nights a week so they could upload assignments. Her home internet existed on paper. It just couldn't carry a live…
The question almost every parent asks before enrolling is some version of this: "But will my child have friends?" It's the right question. A child can ace every assignment and still come home from school, online or in-person, feeling invisible.…
When a parent calls us in October worried about their tenth grader, the story usually sounds the same. The student was technically going to school. Backpack on, bus stop on time, present on the roll sheet. But the report card…
A mom in Ohio emailed us last spring. Her 9th grader had changed schools twice in two years, and somewhere along the way, a counselor's handwritten note about a tough week in 7th grade had followed him into a new…
A mom in our program recently shared a story that stuck with me. Her 13-year-old son used an AI chatbot to help with a history paper on the Civil Rights Movement. The bot produced three beautifully written paragraphs, citing a…