By India McCarty
A new app makes the switch to homeschooling easier than ever — meet Edefy, the “Uber of education.”
“Ultimately, I was just very frustrated with public education and wanted to break its infrastructure and logistics monopoly and from experience saw that the Pod school model created a better system for children and teachers,” Edefy’s founder, who did not wish to disclose their name, told Fox News.
They continued, “We have been funding the development of the Edefy app/platform for two and a half years, and began using a very rudimentary version of our app last year for some pilot pods, but the first real version for public use was just finalized and released a few days ago. We consider this version 1, but have a robust product pipeline so will be rapidly updating it with new features each week.”
Per Edefy’s website, the app “connects families to preferred teachers at nearby host sites to launch pods on demand,” helping parents “shape the education experience you want for your children.”
Edefy is also intended to help teachers, giving them the “creative freedom to shape your learning experience and maximize student outcomes,” as well as the opportunity to “build stronger connections with aligned parents and experience the joyful atmosphere of small group education.”
School choice advocate of the American Culture Project Corey DeAngelis called the app “the Uber of education,” saying it “could revolutionize education by connecting teachers with students while putting parents in the driver’s seat.”
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“Public schools spend about $20,000 per student per year. Imagine if that money followed the child with school choice and a teacher set up a microschool with 12 students,” DeAngelis explained. “That teacher could pull in $240,000 in revenue each year, make more money than in the public school system, and have the freedom to teach without bureaucratic red tape.”
He continued, “This concept shakes up the entire factory model school system…Parents want alternatives to the one-size-fits-all government school system, and the best teachers are ready to jump ship, too.”
Edefy comes at a time when homeschooling is more popular than ever. A 2023 report from the Washington Post found that “in states with comparable enrollment figures the number of home-schooled students increased 51 percent over the past six school years, far outpacing the 7 percent growth in private school enrollment.”
“Public school enrollment dropped 4 percent in those states over the same period, a decline partly attributable to home schooling,” the Post continued, adding, “In 390 districts included in The Post’s analysis, there was at least one home-schooled child for every 10 in public schools during the 2021-2022 academic year.”
As more and more parents decide to turn to homeschooling, Edefy is a new option that can help streamline that switch.
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