Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

This is the closest I've seen to a homeschool model that can scale to a similar size as the schools we're used to. Assuming you keep class sizes reasonable, I really think this can work. Age-mixing + matching teacher pairs to students on the basis of interest would make this

There's a documentary on one of these schools I *strongly* recommend — Most Likely to Succeed, available on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Most-Likely-Succeed-Brian-Cesson/dp/B07F85R9CN/ …

"My daughter had always been a good student. Always loved school. Then suddenly, in the fourth grade... just, kind of quit. She wasn't interested in school anymore. She'd struggle to get out of bed, she'd fake being sick. Getting her to complete her homework was a total battle."

So the documentarian and his wife requested a meeting with their daughter's teacher after a bad math test. They knew she wasn't working at the level she was capable of. Her mother asked her what she was feeling in math class. She said "I just look up, and I'm not interested."

"Now, later... I'll tell her that school seems meaningless now, but later, when she's applying to college or when she's looking for a job, she'll understand what this was all for. She needs to take this seriously now because one day, she'll see that this will all make sense..."

"But after spending two years working on this film, I now worry that these things that I've told my daughter and my son are a lie."

Not defending the orthodoxy, but a model such as HTH concentrates students to particular teachers - this assumes/requires a consistent level of instructional excellence and teacher development.