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Why CRP is subscription-free
Subscription-based services create barriers to access for students, particularly in less developed countries. Over the last 15 years, I’ve heard from hundreds of Chinese learners in places like Cambodia, Indonesia, Hungary, Belarus, and Nigeria, where unfavorable currency exchange rates and low local wages make paying even small app fees impossible.
And it’s not just learners in third world countries that can’t afford even cheap signups – underpaid teachers in underfunded schools (including in the US) often have to pay for learning materials out of their own pockets, and they already barely get paid. Teachers all over the world use CRP in their classrooms. While the world moves towards monetizing the heck out of everything, I think it’s important to keep a few good resources available that have no barrier to entry at all.