My name is Kai, and back in the day when I owned an iPod, the device name was set to KaiPod. Needless to say I was somewhat surprised to see this headline when I opened HN today!
Thanks so much for sharing this! :)
Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
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Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your comment. COVID reminded us how important a school's role is in providing a safe place for students to be & learn (so that parents/guardians can work or otherwise support their households). You may have seen the data on COVID's disproportionate effect on women leaving the workforce to tend to childcare duties that would otherwise not have been present if schools were open. For many online school famili…
Those online school families should send their kids to school. The only good reasons for not doing so are ones that would also prevent them from going to your fake school. And instead of an idiotic sneer about biology, perhaps you could share why you appear to have decided that "academic bonding", as you called it earlier, is so contemptible - and what you find so awful about kids being around others of the same age.
You want to send kids to a uniform school, learning uniform things, in an assembly-line manner. The home schooling / unschooling movement believes that every student is different, how they learn best is unique to them, and the factory schools are overpriced / inefficient / run by corrupt unions. The movement is growing because people don’t want their kids to suffer in the horrible schools designed to beat the desire to learn out of them. Parents have the right to determine how to raise their kids and that includes their education. The moment the state requires you to send your kids to an indoctrination camp is the moment I leave the country.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#23I LOVE this! Have family members who have been renting offices at wework for their kids to do this.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those online school families should send their kids to school. The only good reasons for not doing so are ones that would also prevent them from going to your fake school. And instead of an idiotic sneer about biology, perhaps you could share why you appear to have decided that "academic bonding", as you called it earlier, is so contemptible - and what you find so awful about kids being around others of the same age.
You want to send kids to a uniform school, learning uniform things, in an assembly-line manner. The home schooling / unschooling movement believes that every student is different, how they learn best is unique to them, and the factory schools are overpriced / inefficient / run by corrupt unions. The movement is growing because people don’t want their kids to suffer in the horrible schools designed to beat the desire…
I think something like this is one of the only reasonable ways to pull off a decent unschooling experience with working parents. During the pandemic school year we pulled our kids out of the system and had a generally positive experience with homeschooling which evolved into unschooling as we learned more, but we never had the time and energy we had hoped to create those learning moments, and our kids' drive was hopelessly oriented towards video games. Even still, they made interesting projects and became quite articulate, if not traditionally academic. Public school is a mess at best- completely outsourced to Pearson and oriented towards an outmoded model of authoritarian compliance, it fails to prepare kids for life and beats the curiosity right out of them... but its also rather turnkey for working families and difficult to compete with their resources for a well-rounded experience.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You want to send kids to a uniform school, learning uniform things, in an assembly-line manner. The home schooling / unschooling movement believes that every student is different, how they learn best is unique to them, and the factory schools are overpriced / inefficient / run by corrupt unions. The movement is growing because people don’t want their kids to suffer in the horrible schools designed to beat the desire…
I think something like this is one of the only reasonable ways to pull off a decent unschooling experience with working parents. During the pandemic school year we pulled our kids out of the system and had a generally positive experience with homeschooling which evolved into unschooling as we learned more, but we never had the time and energy we had hoped to create those learning moments, and our kids' drive was hope…
I agree. What we need are experiments like KaiPod - actual innovation in the education space. The educational model of the 1800s is not what we need in education today. If we let the funding follow the student, then the ~$20k spent on educating each child could be used by the parent to select the best option. Unfortunately we continue to give money to the "free" schools and force parents to spend extra to actually educate kids. It's insanity.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#26I LOVE this! Have family members who have been renting offices at wework for their kids to do this.
Thanks so much for your support!
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your comment. COVID reminded us how important a school's role is in providing a safe place for students to be & learn (so that parents/guardians can work or otherwise support their households). You may have seen the data on COVID's disproportionate effect on women leaving the workforce to tend to childcare duties that would otherwise not have been present if schools were open. For many online school famili…
Those online school families should send their kids to school. The only good reasons for not doing so are ones that would also prevent them from going to your fake school. And instead of an idiotic sneer about biology, perhaps you could share why you appear to have decided that "academic bonding", as you called it earlier, is so contemptible - and what you find so awful about kids being around others of the same age.
Hey - you can't attack another user like this and you can't call names like this in HN comments.
Please review the rules and stick to them, regardless of how you strongly feel about education. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I normally don't make moderation comments when people are criticizing YC startups (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Thoughtful critique is fine, but what you posted here was egregious and the kind of thing we ban accounts for. No more of this, please, regardless of the topic.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those online school families should send their kids to school. The only good reasons for not doing so are ones that would also prevent them from going to your fake school. And instead of an idiotic sneer about biology, perhaps you could share why you appear to have decided that "academic bonding", as you called it earlier, is so contemptible - and what you find so awful about kids being around others of the same age.
Hey - you can't attack another user like this and you can't call names like this in HN comments. Please review the rules and stick to them, regardless of how you strongly feel about education. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I normally don't make moderation comments when people are criticizing YC startups ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... ). Thoughtful critique is fine…
Oops, I'll go back to poker- faced sarcastic remarks that are superficially civil but represent other comments as the most vacuous inane strawman argument I can find, like he did here.
Re: Launch HN: KaiPod Learning (YC S21) – A physical place for online schoolers
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey - you can't attack another user like this and you can't call names like this in HN comments. Please review the rules and stick to them, regardless of how you strongly feel about education. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I normally don't make moderation comments when people are criticizing YC startups ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... ). Thoughtful critique is fine…
Oops, I'll go back to poker- faced sarcastic remarks that are superficially civil but represent other comments as the most vacuous inane strawman argument I can find, like he did here.
I really think you're misreading the other commenter quite badly. Even if not, though, this is one of the guidelines that you, like all users here, are asked to follow:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Please don't miss this one either:
"Don't be snarky."
or this one:
"Be kind."