Video 1 Transcript
I feel like the word co-op is incredibly vague because people usually think about a great big organized thing where there are lots of classes and lots of kids and lots of parent involvement and we've done that too but this year me and one friend got together and our kids get together for a couple of classes. She teaches them science and art and I teach them all history and literature and that's our co-op and it works really well just to have this small group of kids with somebody that I know and trust share classes with my kids so good luck.
Video 2 Transcript
One of the things that I've liked about participating in co-ops is that it gave a great opportunity to connect with other families and to get a little break from doing all of the teaching. Particularly after my twins were born, I really needed a break and I had my older children participating in a co-op and that was very helpful. We've done co-ops with a large group and with a small group, even with one class with three families and it was really great. I love the smaller ones, but the most important thing is not the size, it's how well everyone works together. And one of the examples of what doesn't work is when we had a group of a lot of families, a wonderful co-op that started out at the beginning of the year, but there were two or three families that just did not work well together. And so by February, we had to quit the co-op or it had to, it just wasn't working and the families had to stop.
