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.
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.
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.
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.