Posted on 03/31/2026 12:33:29 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
This YouTube video from Fox Business Clips (uploaded March 25, 2026) is an interview on Mornings with Maria featuring Mackenzie Price, co-founder and CEO of Alpha Schools. Main Topic
The segment discusses how AI-driven schools could fundamentally transform education. Alpha Schools uses personalized AI tutors and adaptive learning platforms to tailor education to each student's strengths, weaknesses, and pace—aiming to deliver far better outcomes than traditional one-size-fits-all classrooms. Key Highlights from the Interview
Super-short academic days: Students spend only about 2 hours per day on core academics (vs. the usual 6+ hours), yet reportedly achieve top 1–2% national scores in math, reading, science, and languages. Focus on real-world skills: The rest of the time emphasizes leadership, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, public speaking, relationship-building, and learning how to use AI tools effectively.
Teachers reimagined: Educators are called “guides” who focus on motivation, emotional support, and mentorship rather than lecturing, grading, or lesson planning (AI handles much of that). Scalability and access: Premium private versions exist (expensive, with comments noting figures around $40k/year).
In Texas, they're using school choice vouchers to offer free or low-cost programs for low-income families (under $65k/year), with ambitions to become one of the largest “districts” there. Broader vision: The model was designed to move beyond the industrial-era factory model of schooling and prepare kids for an AI-dominated world by teaching them how to learn and adapt.
The discussion also touches on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s support for AI in education (with guardrails) to keep the U.S. competitive globally (e.g., vs. China). Concerns raised include screen time, AI reliability, social skill development, and whether AI can truly replace human elements in teaching. Overall Tone
Optimistic about AI raising human potential and making high-quality education more efficient and personalized, while acknowledging skepticism around over-reliance on screens and the changing role of teachers.
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They’re not learning anything now, so it can only get worse.
Indoctrination tailored to the individual student. Sounds wonderful.
How so?
You can already use google to find any answer you want and a YouTube video giving you a step by step explanation.
Because everything is getting worse.
a yuuuge part of basic stuff can be learned from a well-functioning machine.
Math, writing composition, languages, basic sciences and other other stuff of “things”.
Person focused interactive stuff is different.
Like the difference between memorizing a recipes and actually making dinner.
The same, but very different.
So critical thinking and problem solving are being dumbed-down so our future overlord can run amuck.
Nope.
Yes. Why do you think the tech bros are being given so much power and essentially being given the keys to the kingdom?
So schools will become cheap as dirt and we will allll get tax rebates while our kids are the smartest little Grokkers in the world.
Not hardly.
Teachers/schools use AI. Kids respond with AI. Bots talking to each other...
I’ve been using ChatGPT for a few things. It made some big errors. I would tell it that it was wrong, it would recheck and say yes you are correct.
As a curious human, my internal algorithm suggested I perform a little research.
These Large Language Models (LLMs, AI) scrape* information off the internet. Whether or not the internet information is real, accurate, or a hoax does not matter. Some of the LLMs use Wokepedia.
I can just see the liberal algorithms now. Jews were not massacred in the Holocaust. Ukrainians were not starved to death in the Holodomor.
As usual, Garbage In Garbage Out
*scrape - how much intellectual property is being stolen and reused without compensation? LLMs could care less about private property rights, or any other human right. The people who create the LLM AI algorithm obviously share that belief. At least, as far as other people’s information/private property is concerned. I doubt that they will reimburse the original authors that have not been compensated for the theft their original thoughts, creations.
Eienstein to to teach you physics.
Pathagoras to teach you geometry.
Freud and Jung to to teach you psycology.
Marx and Mao to teach you how to think straight.
Let’s face it, the government schools tainted by the leftist teachers and their unions has failed miserably in both outcomes and associated costs. It’s the elephant in the room.
The benefit of this approach is that it gets away from the defects of the current teaching model, which proceeds at the pace of the slowest learners and leaves most students bored most of the time. In addition, it creates detailed records of each student’s progress and mastery of specific skills and subject matter.
It can get better.
We can influence the AIs. (and we're already doing it right now. We've been doing it for years.)
We can't influence the progressives. Progressives are fundamentally built to hate the U.S.
AIs are incapable of hatred.
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