Your kid soars.
You hold the string.
Kite is a marketplace of vetted educators who teach your kids live online — following a curriculum you build. You choose everything they learn. And everything they don't.
Somewhere along the way, what kids learn stopped being a conversation between families and teachers — and became a decision made far from your kitchen table.
Kite hands the pen back to you.
How Kite works
Build the curriculum
Pick every subject, every book, every topic — and strike anything you don't want taught. Your plan, down to the lesson.
We match the educators
Vetted, background-checked teachers who teach your plan live online — small groups or one-on-one. You approve every one.
Watch them soar
Every lesson plan visible before it's taught. Clear progress records built to satisfy your state's homeschool requirements.
You choose
- Every subject and every topic
- Every book and every material
- Every teacher — approved by you
- The values and worldview in the room
- The schedule that fits your family
- …and everything your kid will never be taught
Kite handles
- Vetting and background checks
- Live online classes that just work
- Scheduling, billing, and payments
- Lesson plans you can read in advance
- Progress records for state reporting
- Finding you the right educator, every time
Kite owns no schools — the way the world's biggest bookstore owns no bookstores. We're the string between great teachers and families who want education on their terms.
School taught the mitochondria.
Nobody taught the mortgage.
On Kite, Real Life is a core subject — right alongside Math and Reading — taught live by people who've actually done it.
Where Money Comes From
What money actually is, how it's created, and why prices rise — explained so a 12-year-old gets it.
How to Invest
Compound interest, index funds, and the stock market — starting decades before most people learn it the hard way.
How to Get a Job
Resumes, interviews, showing up, following up — taught by people who hire.
How to Carry Yourself
Manners, eye contact, speaking to adults, handling conflict — the skills every parent wishes school still taught.
Natural Medicine & Wellness
Nutrition, herbs, sleep, and prevention — building healthy bodies the natural way first.
Start Something
From lemonade stand to LLC — entrepreneurship as a subject, not a dream.
All of it — plus taxes, credit, home and car basics, and more — lives under the Real Life subject in the curriculum builder below. Included by default, shaped by you, growing all the time.
Build your kid's curriculum in 60 seconds.
This is the heart of Kite: a strong base in every core subject — with every topic inside it yours to shape, and nothing taught that you've struck. Try it.
Every Kite kid starts with a strong base in all nine core subjects — Real Life included. Open any subject to shape what's inside it — strike a topic and it's gone. And if you want a subject out entirely, that's your call too.
Already using another platform? Switching is the easy part.
Join the waitlist now and these founding offers are locked in for you at launch.
For families
- Trapped Credit Rescue. Credits stuck on another platform? We'll match up to $100 of them in Kite class credit.
- Free curriculum rebuild. Tell us what your kid does now — a Kite advisor rebuilds it as your own editable curriculum, free.
- First class with any new teacher is free — and Kite pays the teacher for it, so nobody works for nothing.
- Founding Family rate lock. The price you join at is yours for life.
- 30-day money-back. No forms, no fight, no fine print.
- ESA concierge. If your state has school-choice funds, we handle the paperwork — Kite may cost your family nothing.
For educators
- Founding rate: keep 90%, for life. Kite takes 10% — not the 30% you're used to losing.
- Students you bring: 0% commission, forever. They were never ours to tax.
- Every trial lesson is paid. Always. Teaching free samples is not a business model.
- Next-day payouts. Not 7–10 days.
- No robot firings. A human reviews any account action, and you can appeal to a person.
- Migration concierge. We rebuild your class listings and import your review history, verified.
Questions parents actually ask
Who watches my kid while I'm at work?+
Kite is built first for families with an adult at home — a parent, a grandparent, a rotating neighbor. For older kids, a full Kite day (live classes plus supervised study halls) keeps them on camera with an educator most of the school day. And we're building Kite Pods: a few local families pooling kids at one home, each kid on their own curriculum.
Is this legal? Does my kid get a diploma?+
Yes. Kite operates under your state's homeschool law — you are the school of record, and Kite provides the instruction, records, and structure. You get clean transcripts and progress records built for your state's requirements, and a path to an accredited diploma option as we grow.
Will colleges accept this?+
Homeschool graduates are admitted to college at rates equal to or better than traditional students, and every major university has a homeschool admissions track. Kite generates the transcripts, course descriptions, and portfolios those applications need — cleaner records than most schools provide.
Do I have to design a whole curriculum myself?+
Only if you want to. Most families start from a Kite template — Classical, Charlotte Mason, STEM-heavy, faith-based, or state-standards-aligned — then edit it: add what matters to your family, strike what doesn't. Full control never means starting from a blank page.
How do I know what's actually said in class?+
Every Kite class is recorded, and the recording belongs to your family — watch any lesson, any time, forever. Lesson plans are visible before class, you can sit in live whenever you want, and educators are rated by parents on teaching the plan as written. No school on earth offers that.
Are these educators safe with my kid?+
Every educator passes an identity check and a criminal background check, renewed annually, before ever meeting a student. All sessions are recorded, and there is no private, unrecorded messaging between educators and children. Ever.
What does it cost?+
You pay per class, transparently — no subscriptions, no expiring credits, no locked-up balances. Most families spend a fraction of private school tuition. And if your state has an ESA or school-choice program, those funds can often cover Kite entirely — we help you set it up.
What if a teacher leaves or isn't a fit?+
Your curriculum belongs to you, not the teacher — so a replacement educator picks up the exact same plan without missing a beat. First classes with new teachers are free, and anything that isn't working gets our 30-day money-back guarantee.
What about friends, sports, and real life?+
Kite classes are small, persistent cohorts — the same handful of kids all year, not anonymous webinars. Many states let homeschoolers play public school sports, and local co-ops, leagues, and Kite family meetups cover the rest. Your kid socializes with kids you actually know.
Teach what families actually want taught.
Set your own rates. Teach from anywhere. No district, no committee — just you, your subject, and families who chose you on purpose. Founding educators keep 90% for life.
Take hold of the string.
Kite is opening soon. Founding families and educators get in first.