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No. Khanacademy is great for learning about a subject but no online service is a good replacement for going to school. In addition to better teacher interaction, there's just way too much meta-learning that goes on at school - how to behave around other people, how to be away from your parents, how to form relationships, how to deal with authority, how to speak in front of people etc. I would feel like I'm socially crippling my children if I restricted them to online schooling.


So if they want to a class where a teacher was general present but everyone learned through KA while doing interactive activities in between - how about that?


I mean when I was in school for a few grades some of my teachers assigned Khan Academy so it was basically that.

I don't think it worked well, but honestly I can imagine a good teacher just replacing whatever course material they're using with KA and lecture off of it, while still somehow incorporating classroom interaction


That sounds like the worst of everything - you won't be getting the benefit of having someone who can explain things to you in person (kind of wasting a teacher) and you also won't have the opportunity that KA gives you to take things at your own pace.




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