How Micro‑Schools Help Special Ed #substack #shorts

You know, I understand how money works and I understand how markets work. We, this is, this literally just happened yesterday. I talked to an educator in Florida, 26 years with special ed education. Like she's deep and she's so passionate and so caring and she's frustrated. She's been limited in her, you know, traditional environment for what she's able to do. And a lot of emphasis on testing, just things that are getting in the way of her responding to what she sees kids need. So she's ready to start a microschool, right? And these are the conversations I love. And she immediately comes with this question of, well, what about IEPs? You know, what about special ed and how does this work? And it's interesting, right? One, this is private, it's outside of, you know, the normal realm. So you don't have the lawsuits and all the litigious aspects of, of special ed, which is what it turns into sometimes. But then in terms of accommodations, you know, if you worked with Prenda, like we've built in most IEP accommodations and offered them to every single kid. So you, you really have. So much flexibility, so much ability to just tailor the experience. And then I said services is an interesting one. I actually used to like be afraid in these conversations to say, well, you know, services can be tricky. Like we don't really have the ability in a microschool to provide everybody with the right therapies and speech and, you know, different things that you need. And the parents are actually like, thank you. I get my money. I have a person I already like. I want to work with them. So the question is just, will they accept ESA? And it's an easy process for them to get registered as a vendor on the, the system. And so all of a sudden you're seeing the market kind of evolve to those needs and respond.