Test the intended week
Look beyond an orderly grid and compare the week with the capacity it actually depends on.
Pre-release software · homeschool feasibility · decision support
Your homeschool plan can look reasonable and still ask too much of the week.
Homeschool Week Fit is a feasibility and decision-support software product being developed to help families test whether the demands behind an intended week can realistically coexist with actual time, support needs, and capacity.
Keep the planning system you already use. The HWF approach is being built for a different decision.
Illustrative modelExample family week
Beyond capacityIntended demand12% beyond capacity
Interpretation
The week looks organized. The pressure appears only when the demands are tested against available parent support.
Planning and feasibility are different jobs
Planning decides where the work goes. The HWF approach asks whether the demands can coexist.
See the constraint
Separate a weekly capacity problem from a day-level placement or parent-attention problem.
Decide what deserves to change
Use the constraint to inform the decision instead of rebuilding everything by default.
Interactions matter
Each child's plan can work on its own while the family week still fails.
Homeschool weeks are shared systems. Parent attention, support needs, real independence, fixed commitments, and changing capacity can collide even when every individual item looks sensible.
The conflict only appears when both children are evaluated as one family week. Child A needs direct support from 9:20–10:10, while Child B needs it from 9:50–10:40. From 9:50–10:10, both need the same parent at once—a 20-minute overlap.
Use real family capacity
The important question is not only what stage a child is in. It is how much support the child actually needs.
A HWF principle
“Independent” on a schedule does not always mean independent in the room. The HWF model is being designed to treat actual parent involvement as decision-relevant context.
Before the week becomes expensive to discover
Test the assumptions behind the plan.
Look for the assumptions that make a week fragile: limited parent time, competing support needs, and independence that may not hold in practice.
Understand the approach