Somebody do this: Uber/TaskRabbit for homeschool teachers. I'd love to get together with ~10 sets of parents, have everyone kick in $15-20k/year each year, and maybe a place to host classes, and hire a bright, motivated teacher. The company would provide the core logistics/materials for passing the Common Core tests, and the teachers and parents would have the flexibility to design around that. It'd be cheaper than private school and less child abuse than subjecting your kids to the public school system.
Ehhhh, it isn't unusual to see private elementary/middle/high- school tuition in NYC rival the tuition at Ivy League colleges, so definitely not limited to the Bay Area.
>> Have everyone kick in $15-20k/year each year
>> It'd be cheaper than private school
> That's comparable to the most expensive private schools
I'm surprised. In the UK, the good ones[1] tend to be around $40k USD p/a for day pupils (rising to $50k if you include board), and that's mostly outside of London.
I'm in one of these. It costs a lot less than $15K per year - but I don't live in the Bay Area.
Our kids are enrolled in a charter school which helps with the state testing/state standards part and we pool resources with other homeschooling families to hire tutors and provide a classroom environment (<10 kids per class) for part of the week.
Interesting idea but not really necessary if you live in an area with even a moderately sized home schooling community. In the Portland area I think the biggest co-op serving this need is http://villagehome.org/. It's working great and costs less than a private school (and can be nearly free if you're willing to give back by teaching).
I was home schooled for a few years in the '80s, and even then we had a co-op and decent sized community where we got together regularly to learn from some bright teachers.
