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About the Founder
Hunter Muse founded 21st Century Learners to solve the problems he encountered while a homesechool student a decade ago. Hunter graduated high school in 2013 and attended BYU, where he majored in Information Systems. After undergrad, he began professional work as a data scientist and product manager in the technology industry, while continuing to work with students to help them succeed. He's worked with teenagers in every setting from the banks of the Amazon River building schools to classrooms teaching technology to campfires leading Boy Scout troops. Hunter is earning a master's in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech while running a homeschool education business and helping students achieve their college goals. In his free time, Hunter adventures with his wife and 3 kids and loves listening to podcasts and training for long-distance races.
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The Beginning
Choosing to homeschool is bold. It’s a going against the grain of society, dancing to the beat of your own drum, trailblazing your own path. And every homeschooler’s journey is unique. But as everyone has felt at some point, standing out can come with its own set of challenges. When I was homeschooling in my teen years, I didn’t know anyone who had been homeschooled and gone on to college and a career. Throughout my teenage years I wondered: am I on the right path? Where will this lead? Am I prepared to reach my goals? Without anyone to guide me along or learn from, I felt uncertain about the future.
Over time, I started adult life and found my own success, but I wanted to learn if other homeschoolers had a similar experience. After talking with many former homeschoolers, I discovered that this experience was not unique. In the following years and after hundreds of conversations, I collected dozens of lessons and insights and best practices from former homeschoolers and synthesized them to share with others.
The findings were clear: many former homeschoolers struggled with similar challenges and obstacles. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. But it didn’t have to be that way. I realized that what I needed as a teenager was a coach, somebody who had been where I was before and could guide me around common obstacles. I also would have benefitted from having a group (or "cohort") of like-minded peers who could help me achieve my goals and think big and keep me accountable to my commitments.