Parents Fell in Love with Alpha School's Promise. Then They Wanted Out
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The article explores the story of Alpha School, which used an AI teacher, and how parents initially were drawn to its promise but later wanted to withdraw their children, highlighting concerns around AI in education.
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Of course when it's a (much cheaper) "AI tutor" it's a totally different matter. The whole framing of a 2h day feels inherently bizarre to me. A "life coach" supervisor hovers around while you click through a lesson packet for 2h. Then you spend the rest of the day in "life skills" workshops learning entrepreneurship or something. The notion that learning math or reading might be more than perfunctory regulatory obligations or that you could learn academic topics in the workshops is totally absent from the model.
Of course they have the same responses as Lambda School or other such grifters. If you want a real human being to teach your child about multiplication so they stop self-harming you just don't have what it takes, you "don't believe in high standards or high support".