For $65,000 a Year, a Teacher-Less AI Private School Comes to Virginia

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  The pitch by Alpha School is as innovative as it is sensational: For $65,000 a year, students study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans and spend their afternoons on life skills such as learning to ride a bike or financial literacy.

  Instead of teachers, the students have “guides.” The AI-driven school, which is coming to Northern Virginia this fall and plans to enroll up to 25 students in grades K-3 at a campus near Dulles International Airport, sits at the intersection of two growing spaces in education: alternative schooling and an explosion of online learning platforms used in nearly every corner of the education sphere, from public school classrooms to at-home supplement work.

Paywalled, so I couldn't read the article, but the title immediately makes we wonder how much time and money would it take for a parent to set up AI-based home schooling, especially if a group of parents band together to accomplish that? Making sure the system was teaching facts and not hallucinations might be difficult, but a $65k private school would have the same problem.