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About

FRAP is short for Family Recreational Activity Passport.

Four words, and the last one is the product. The first three say who it is for and what it covers; the fourth is the thing being built — a record of the hours, kept for the whole of school rather than for a term.

FamilyA parent’s account, with the children under it. Not a child’s login.
RecreationalWhat a child chooses, not what a school assigns. The half nobody keeps.
ActivityHours actually taught, written by the instructor who taught them.
PassportThe document those hours add up to, from kindergarten to the application.

Why a passport rather than a planner.

Plenty of apps will help you schedule a Tuesday. A calendar is free and already on your phone.

Eleventh grade, four disciplines, 241.5 hours — every one of them closed out by the instructor who taught it. Nothing on this screen was typed in by a parent, and nothing on it can be edited afterwards.

What no one keeps is the other half — the record of what actually happened. Four years of piano, two seasons in goal, a term of chess someone quietly got very good at. It exists in a parent’s memory, in a WhatsApp thread with an instructor, and nowhere else. By the time it would be useful, most of it is gone.

So FRAP writes it down, and the writing is the whole discipline of the product. An hour is created only when the instructor who taught it closes out the session. Nobody can edit it afterwards — not the instructor, not the parent, not us. That constraint is why the record is worth anything at all.

We start in Frisco, in six disciplines, with math and biology tutoring alongside. Small on purpose: a marketplace is only as good as the people in it, and we would rather verify twenty instructors properly than list two hundred we have not met.

What we will not do

Sell anything to a child. There is no price anywhere in the child-facing app, and no column in our database where a price on a cosmetic item could go.
Rank children against each other. Badges are earned against a child’s own hours. There is no leaderboard and there will not be one.
Collect more than we need. No surname, no address, no school, no uploaded photographs. The safety page has the full list.
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