A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Are we sure it's not a honeypot set up by Child Protective Services?

Didn't everyone figure out screen time learning didn't work during COVID?

That's fucked up

Excited to see the rate of inappropriate student-teacher relationships and suicides at this school.

Bean bag chairs, soundproof booths and portable whiteboards make Alpha Schools look more like a tech startup than a school. But its biggest break from tradition is not the design: It’s an education model that uses artificial intelligence to teach core subjects while adults in the room serve as “guides,” not teachers.

This is absolutely a terrible idea

Great. More absolute dumbfucks shoved into an already insane society. What could possibly go wrong?

aLpHa ScHoOLs

I'm old enough to have seen the advent of computers as a teacher. Immediately, the word was spread that computers would replace teachers. They didn't. With the advent of the internet, again, proponents said it would eliminate teachers. It didn't. The reason almost all attempts failed was because the main purpose of teachers is not to diseminate knowledge. It's to hold accountable, inspire, spark imagination, encourage, make human connections, give emotional support, coach, and teach responsibility. There are some students that will do well in a teacherless classroom. The majority won't.

But if there are no teachers then who is gonna sell me weed behind the bike sheds?

Paging Dr Skinner, paging Dr Skinner

Honestly, I love the way the school is structured with the exception of the use of Ai. I think that real teachers and subject matter experts could do the same job as the Ai while also being "guides".