Pandemic hurdles inspire sisters to build online homeschool community
Newsy
The sisters had the bright idea to start their own online home school in their darkest moment during the pandemic.
After struggling with remote learning during the pandemic, two sisters in Virginia decided they couldn't sit and wait for the education system to change to meet their needs. Instead, Sumay and Aila Lu decided to start their own online home school. Today, it's called the WEquil School, and it functions online — and, on an app — serving hundreds of students across the country.
The sisters had the bright idea in their darkest moment during the pandemic.
"A lot of kids felt confused, including me, and so we started creating projects about things that we were interested in, and we found that we were learning at least ten times faster and we were retaining our knowledge," said the WEquil School's 11-year-old CEO, Aila Lu.
"And so, we started offering that to other kids," she said.
Aila's 14-year-old sister Sumay started coding to build the WEquil platform, and eventually, with help from a team of web developers, the girls launched the WEquil School and its associated platforms.
