I'll give some more thought to revealing my age on the about page (I'm now a college freshman, by the way). Any specific reasons you say teachers would be uncomfortable with it?
I'm hesitant to add more plans at the risk of creating too many options for users, but I am looking into the possibility of institutional accounts.
Also, I hadn't fully realized the disconnect between that screenshot and subtitle, thanks.
My sister is getting her PhD in learning and memory research, and specializes in how kids learn (and she has her teaching cert), and her experience matches mine: teachers hate being told there's something new, young, and better. If they discover it for themselves, great. But positioning yourself as the new young buck on the scene is shooting yourself in the foot. Frankly, I'd try to get an advisory board chock-full of NEA and AFT reps.
I'm hesitant to add more plans at the risk of creating too many options for users
Read 'The Truth about Relativity' in Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. He explains this problem really well.
A quote from that chapter: most people don't know what they want unless they see it in context. We don't know what kind of racing bike we want—until we see a champ in the Tour de France ratcheting the gears on a particular model. We don't know what kind of speaker system we like—until we hear a set of speakers that sounds better than the previous one.
I think I've actually read that quote before, but somehow it slipped my mind. I'll check out the whole argument.
To present different options would pretty much require a shift from my one-class-free model to an extra-features-for-money model, so that's something I'll have to wrestle with.
I'm hesitant to add more plans at the risk of creating too many options for users, but I am looking into the possibility of institutional accounts.
Also, I hadn't fully realized the disconnect between that screenshot and subtitle, thanks.