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What did you all think was happening? Parents chose to hold their children back in subject areas they were weak in? Of course we delegate teaching certain topics to professionals.

The thing about those professionals, they know their continued employment is based on the merit of their work. You can fire your children's teacher(s) and hire better ones.

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The article spends a long time on the fact that the “teachers” are not professionals and do not claim to be.

Most of the controversy would probably go away if there were accreditation boards for these courses, but there are not.

Also, much of the coursework is being offered by unregulated, gray market, for-profit platforms, and if you read HN at all, you already know this will end in enshitification.

What makes you think the free market doesn't regulate?

In this case I would say that the latency of finding out a method or microschool isn’t teaching in an effective way might be longer than I would like to see as a parent.

So that’s a small problem as this is all rapidly developing.

There is a ton of information asymmetry in education. (The parents don’t sit through the classes, and the kids have no reference points), which means it will devolve into a “market for lemons” in the absent of regulation.

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