A real teacher, at your kitchen table. She teaches all five subjects one-on-one, in a warm real voice, from the curriculum you already bought, for $29 a month. She prints real worksheets, grades the pencil marks from a photo, and shows you exactly what was taught and where it came from. You stay the parent. She does the teaching.
She's an AI teacher, with rules, and you should be skeptical of that sentence. Here's exactly what she is and what she's never allowed to do.
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This is a real two-minute sample of how she teaches. Try it. Click the answers yourself.
From signup to a running school day, in four steps.
Free, no card.
She runs a free placement assessment, so day one starts where your child actually is, not where a grade label says they should be.
or use the built-in year plan. She teaches from its pages every school day.
A nightly email, mastery your child proves twice, and records that write themselves.
All she needs is a device with a browser and a microphone. A printer makes worksheets real paper, and it's optional.
You are not failing your kid. You just can't be five teachers at once, and now you don't have to be.
Every homeschool parent knows them. "Is my kid actually on pace?" and "am I keeping the records my state wants?" Here's how both stop being your problem.
She lays your child's whole year out as a map: every real skill in the standards, week by week, on your family's own calendar (4th grade math alone is 46 distinct skills, not 7 vague topics). A skill only counts as locked in when your child independently shows it on two separate days. Not "we covered it." Showed it. Twice.
Every week or two she runs a review day to keep that record honest, disguised entirely as games. Your child has a fun day. You get the instrument reading: which skills came back solid, which need another pass.
So your nightly email can say "on pace" and mean it. And when a child falls behind, you never get a cold verdict: you get the specific skills in the gap and three real ways back, with the choice left to you.
Open the records vault, hit print, and hand over the packet: an attendance register that built itself from real school days (a completed lesson counts, opening the app never does), every skill with the dates it was demonstrated, review-day results, reading checks, and every graded worksheet with her actual written feedback.
It opens with your state's actual homeschool requirements in plain language, all 50 states, right next to the records that answer them. Texas asks for almost nothing. New York asks for a lot. Either way you can see exactly what your state wants and exactly what you already have.
The binder homeschool parents assemble in a panic every spring? It's been quietly writing itself since your child's first lesson.
Both of these run on evidence her own records can prove, not on vibes. That's the difference between a dashboard and a report card you'd stake your name on.
Drop in the PDFs. She reads them, teaches what's on their pages, and every single session logs which book it came from. Here's the part nobody else can show you:
The journal's own units, in the journal's own order, taught from the journal's own pages.
This isn't a concept mockup. The whale tile exists. This exact thing happened at our kitchen table this week.
Whatever state you school in, she teaches your state's plan. Her built-in year plan runs on the Texas standards, K through 12, and if your state has its own requirements, you choose the curriculum that meets them, upload it, and she teaches yours.
Some states require yearly testing or specific subjects (Virginia, New York, and others). You pick a curriculum that satisfies your state, the way homeschool families there already do.
Drop in the PDFs and your curriculum becomes the lesson plan: its units, its order, its actual pages. Every session logs which book it came from, which is exactly the paper trail testing states love.
She tracks coverage against the course and the school-year calendar, so "are we going to be ready?" has a real answer all year, not a guess in April.
When you create your child's teacher, tell us which state you homeschool in and we'll point you at where families in your state find their curriculum. Here's the full guide for out-of-state families.
Her built-in Texas plan steps into the background. Lessons, examples, and worksheets now come from this family's book, in this book's order.
Same upload feature as the whale course above, pointed at replacement instead of enrichment. Your state's curriculum becomes the lesson plan.
Every core subject. Your curriculum. A teacher who remembers September when it's April.
A warm, real voice. Your child holds a button and talks right back, or types. It's a conversation, not a wall of text.
She works problems out step by step, right in the lesson. Your child works answers out on their own whiteboard and shows her, and she reacts to what they actually drew.
She prints worksheets to your home printer. Your child does them with a pencil, holds the page up to the camera, and she grades the real handwriting with honest, specific feedback.
Upload the courses you bought and she teaches from their actual pages. A course your kid loves can even become its own subject on their dashboard, whales and all.
All five core subjects mapped to real state learning standards, kindergarten through 12th grade. High schoolers get the real course sequence (Algebra I, Biology, and on up). She lays the year out as a pace map on your family's calendar and pins your child to it with evidence, so your child can't quietly dodge the hard stuff forever, and neither can the schedule.
She keeps living notes on how your child learns: which analogies land, what steadies their confidence, which misconception keeps sneaking back. You can read every word on your private dashboard, alongside every session, every grade, and which book each lesson came from. Sit down for a parent-teacher meeting any time; what you decide becomes her standing policy, and your word always outranks her notes.
She is tested every night, and the changelog is public. Every night at 4 AM, her lessons get run and re-run, hunting for anything that could confuse, discourage, or shortchange a child. What gets found gets fixed, reviewed, and verified against real teaching before it ships. Whatever fails that bar never reaches your kid. By breakfast she's measurably better than she was at bedtime, and you didn't pay a dollar more or lift a finger.
That's an easy thing to put on a homepage and a hard thing to prove. So we don't ask you to take our word for it: the nightly ledger is public. Every verified improvement, timestamped, updated every morning before you're out of bed.
These rules were set before the first family ever signed up, and the plain-English version is public at /privacy.
We never ask for your child's last name, birthday, address, or a photo of their face. A nickname works fine, and the teacher will never know the difference.
No advertising is ever shown to your child, nothing they say or do is used to target ads anywhere, and their schoolwork is never used to train AI models.
No chat with other users, no public profiles, no social features. The only conversation is with their teacher. Even Grace, the site's question-answering chat for parents, stays hidden during lessons and for student logins.
If your first month doesn't make school days lighter, say so and we refund it. No forms, no fight. Cancel anytime from your own settings.
Most schools hand you a wall of five-star quotes and ask you to trust strangers. We just opened our doors, so I'm going to do the opposite: instead of testimonials you'd have to take on faith, here are three things you can go verify with your own eyes right now, before you give us a dime.
Sit in on a complete reading lesson, start to finish, before you hand us anything. Not a highlight reel, not a sales video. The actual teacher, actually teaching. Open the live lesson →
She gets measurably better every night, and every verified fix is posted, timestamped, before you're out of bed. Any company can claim that. We show you the receipts, dated. See what got better last night →
Before any other child sat with her, she taught my 9-year-old, every school day, at our real kitchen table. His placement checks, printed worksheets, and graded pages are all real and all logged. The founding-family story →
And a straight word about reviews. You'll notice there are no glowing customer quotes on this page yet. That isn't an oversight, and it isn't a section I forgot to finish. It's because we just started, and I won't write a fake one or dress a friend up as a customer to fill the space.
When real families have used her for a real stretch and have something to say, their words will land right here, in their own voice, with their real first name, and I won't quietly delete the parts that sting. Until then I'd rather show you nothing than show you something I made up. The demo, the public ledger, and my own kid are the proof I actually have. Go check them.
Josh · I'd rather you trust the receipts than trust me
From our kitchen table to yours. This school started when we pulled our 9-year-old out of school and I learned I'm a lot of things, but a patient teacher across five subjects is not one of them. I build with AI for a living, so I built him a real teacher. She taught him every school day at our own kitchen table before any other family ever met her, and that is still the bar: nothing reaches your child that didn't prove itself with mine first.
One more thing, and you should hear it before you sign up, not after. This is a Christian school. That does not mean sermons stapled onto math, and your child will never be quizzed on what they believe. It means gratitude, wonder at how things are made, honesty, and a teacher who treats your child like someone who is loved on purpose. Big questions get a simple answer and get sent back to you, because those conversations belong to your family. If that's not what you want for yours, I'd rather you know now.
Josh, founder
Boxed homeschool curriculum runs $400 to $1,000 a year, and it doesn't talk, listen, teach, or grade anything. She does all four, for less than a dollar a day.
A math tutor runs about $40 an hour. She costs $29 a month, per child, and she teaches everything.
Already sure? Enroll first, set up the teacher right after.
More than one kid? Each child gets their own teacher, their own classroom, and their own progress record, at $29/month per child. Two kids is $58, three is $87. No sharing a login, no siblings tangled together.
The founding-family offer, and why it's capped. Enroll while a spot is open and $29/child is locked for your family for as long as you stay, even when the price goes up later, plus founding families earn 25% referral credit. That promise costs us real money to keep, so we're only making it to 25 families. When they're taken, they're taken.
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Straight answers, before you hand us anything:
Yes, and you should be skeptical of that sentence, because most AI "tutors" are a chat window with homework hints. This is a teacher with rules. She follows real state learning standards, keeps a structured record of exactly what was covered (her log, not her opinion), teaches from the curriculum YOU chose, and shows you which book every session came from. And before any other family used her, she taught my own 9-year-old at my own kitchen table, every school day. I watched. That's the bar.
The places where that matters are locked down. If your child turns in a photo too blurry to read, she says so and asks for a retake; she is explicitly not allowed to guess. If a book in her library has pages she can't read, she says that too, instead of pretending. Progress isn't vibes; it's a record of which specific standards were actually covered, kept automatically.
Perfect. That's the whole point. Upload it and she teaches from its actual pages, in its actual order, and logs which sessions drew from it. Your curriculum stays the boss; she's the teacher who finally delivers it every day.
No. It's replacing the part you can't do: five subjects a day, one-on-one, with the patience of a saint and a perfect memory of what's been taught. You stay the principal. She works for you, takes your direction, and reports to you.
A session has a timer you set (30, 45, or 60 minutes) and when it's up, she wraps the lesson herself. Half the work happens on paper with a pencil. It's a school day, not an endless scroll.
Straight answer: Kitchen Table School is a teacher, not an accrediting body, and in most states (including Texas) homeschools aren't accredited at all; that's normal. If accredited materials matter to your family, buy them and hand them to her. She'll teach them page by page and give you the paper trail.
This is the one that quietly scares people out of homeschooling, so here's the straight version. Your records vault opens with your state's actual homeschool requirements in plain language (notice, attendance, assessment, what to keep), for all 50 states, with an honest "laws change, verify the current rules" note because we're a school, not a law firm. Right below it sit the records that answer those requirements: an attendance register built automatically from real school days, every skill with the dates your child demonstrated it, review-day results, and every graded worksheet with the teacher's written feedback. One print button turns it into the packet. In Texas you'll barely need it. In a portfolio state like Pennsylvania or New York, it's the binder you were dreading, already assembled. Want to read your state's full rules before you ever make an account? We publish a free, fact-checked guide to every state's homeschool law, no signup and no card. Find yours here.
Because we made a rule that pacing has to run on evidence, not vibes. A skill only counts as mastered when your child independently gets it right on two separate days; "we went over it" counts for nothing. Every week or two, the teacher runs a low-key review day to keep that record honest, and your child experiences it entirely as games (the words test and quiz are literally banned from her mouth). The year map then compares what's actually locked in against your family's own calendar, and the nightly email tells you plainly: ahead, on pace, or behind, and if behind, exactly which skills make up the gap and three real ways to close it. The pace sentence in your email is computed from that record. She's not allowed to write it herself.
Yes, and here's the honest version of how. Her built-in year plan follows the Texas learning standards, kindergarten through 12th grade. If your state has its own requirements (some states have yearly testing, like Virginia), you pick the curriculum that meets them, upload it, and she teaches YOUR curriculum from its actual pages instead, with pacing so your child is ready when test season comes. That upload feature isn't a workaround we invented for this answer; it's the same one Texas families use for the courses they already bought. When you sign up, tell us your state and we'll walk you through it.
If you want, yes. You can create your child their own username and password from your account settings. Their login opens their classroom and nothing else: no settings, no billing, no other siblings' work, nothing to break. An 8th grader can sit down and do school without waiting for you, and everything still logs to your parent dashboard. Younger kids can keep using yours.
Yes. I'm a Christian, and the teacher your child sits with loves Jesus. Here's what that actually looks like on a normal Tuesday: gratitude, wonder at how things are made, honesty about hard things, and patience when your child gets something wrong. Here's what it does not look like: sermons bolted onto math, memory verses, or your child being tested on what they believe. When a big question does come up, she answers it briefly and honestly and then points your child back to you, because how your family believes is yours to teach, not hers. If your family isn't Christian, your child gets exactly the same warmth and exactly the same standards, and you can tell her in the parent portal how you'd like her to handle it. And if this just isn't what you want, that's a completely fair call, and I'd rather you hear it here than discover it mid-lesson.
No. There's no reset button in your child's reach, and everything is logged. Session controls live in the parent portal only.
A device with a browser and a microphone: a laptop, a desktop, or a tablet. That's the whole list. She talks, listens, and teaches at her chalkboard right in the browser. A printer is optional; it's what turns worksheets into real paper your child does with a pencil, so we recommend one, but you can start without it.
The five core subjects, kindergarten through 12th grade: Reading, English & Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. High schoolers get the real course sequence (Algebra I, Biology, and on up). And a course your child loves can become its own subject on their dashboard: upload it and she teaches it, whales and all.
Canceling stops the billing. It does not delete anything. Your account and your child's records stay right where they are, and the records vault stays printable, so you can save the whole packet as a PDF whenever you like. Records are only deleted when you tell us to delete them, and if you ever want everything we have in one readable file, email hello@kitchentableschool.com and a real person will send it.
P.S. The short version: your child gets a patient one-on-one teacher for every core subject, every school day, taught from the curriculum you chose, with proof you can check any night. Less than a dollar a day. Pull up a chair.
As a founding family, every family you refer earns you 25% of their subscription as credit on yours. Refer four, and your child's school is completely paid for, every month they stay. Homeschool families know homeschool families. That should count for something.
No forms to fill out now. Just make sure friends put your email in the "did a friend refer you?" box when they sign up.
Create your family account. The free placement assessment is included, no card needed.
Sign in to your family account.
Changes to your account always require your password. That's on purpose.
Give a child their own username and password. Their login opens their classroom and nothing else — no settings, no billing, no siblings' work. Great for older kids who want to do school on their own clock.
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This permanently deletes a child's classroom, teacher, progress, and records. There is no undo — so finishing it takes a confirmation email, not just a click. Your subscription steps down automatically on the next invoice.
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Your family's school, all in one place.
Pick a teacher personality to start from. You'll make it yours in the next steps.
Warm, patient, encouraging. The teacher everyone wishes they'd had. (Mrs. M's style.)
High-energy and upbeat. Turns every lesson into a practice rep and celebrates the wins.
Extra-patient, small steps, lots of reassurance. Great for anxious or struggling learners.
Answer a few questions and craft a personality from scratch.
Swipe to meet each one, then tap the one that fits.
Walk in like it's meet-the-teacher night. Parents first is completely normal — ask her anything, tell her about your child, and your kid can say hi now or another time. She'll ask who's with her today. Talk or type.
Looking for curriculum uploads, grades, or a word with the teacher? That all lives in the Parent Portal.
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That is the part most parents lie awake about. Not the worksheets. The question of whether you are missing something, and whether you would even know if you were.
Do the other four subjects too. They are free, there is no card, and you will have an honest read on your child in every core subject by tonight.
Why free? Because a warm-up is easy to promise and hard to fake. I would rather you see a real teacher work with your kid for ten minutes than read one more paragraph of me telling you it works. If it lands, school days start at $29 a month per child, and founding families keep that price for as long as they stay. If your first month does not make school days lighter, tell me and I refund it.
The parents' side of the school: progress, curriculum, records, your calendar, and a direct line to the teacher. Your student never sees this room.
Upload the curriculum you already bought (a PDF or a photo of a page) and she teaches from its actual pages, logging which book every lesson drew from. Upload two for the same subject and she teaches them as one. Want your curriculum instead of her built-in plan? Flip a subject to teach only from yours. Out-of-state families: this is where your state's curriculum goes.
A parent-teacher meeting, any time. Ask how things are going, hand her a heads-up, or set a standing rule for how she teaches — she'll confirm it back before it sticks, and it lands in the rulings ledger below.
Your calendar, not ours — pace math and "on pace" verdicts follow the dates you set. The test date is optional; set it and the year map builds a review runway to it.
How long a school session runs. When time's up, the teacher wraps the lesson herself — a proper close, not a cut-off. Half the work happens on paper anyway.