Posted on 08/21/2025 2:15:42 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is backing Alpha School. This rapidly growing private institution utilizes artificial intelligence to condense academic content into two hours a day, while steering clear of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Ackman praised Alpha in a post on X on Wednesday, calling it "the first truly breakthrough innovation in K-12 education" since the KIPP Academy.
"Two hours of a dedicated AI personal tutor customized for your child's academic program. Four hours of leadership and life skills. No homework. Daily real-time data on how your child is doing," Ackman wrote.
"Alpha kids love school and have incredible outcomes."
(Excerpt) Read more at benzinga.com ...
MacKenzie Price, the founder, said, “We do not let anything—political, social issues—come in the way.”
I like the sound of this. Education needs to be transformed. No more government schools.
That was the intent of Common Core. To make education dysfunctional enough that people would be willing to pay billionaires to run it instead.
And you are correct. Change is overdue.
If I were a kid, I would like the idea of no homework and only 2 hours a day of instruction.
And you are correct. Change is overdue.
In the old one room school house the older students would learn by teacvhing the younger students.
Homework was important in the process.
old time learning is apprenticing with your parents, chores, part of the family home business..
I guess the point is there are a lot of important aspects of education to learn from the old methods.
find out what a kid is good at, at an early age, and then immerse them in that.
That was the intent of Common Core.
You can’t blame the parents, they’re voters, you can’t blame the teachers because they vote and their unions dole out money and you can’t blame the kids, because, well, they’re kids. So what to blame, the method of teaching.
Now humans have been educating kids for millennia, so you’d think we’d have it down by now. But no, experts say, we’re doing it all wrong. Take math for example. Many math teachers, unlike the rest of us, really love math, the patterns that it produces. They found in their own lives that things like memorizing the times tables boring; they advocated letting kids discover the patterns on their own. Ninety percent of students end up with little to no knowledge of how to do any math operation without the help of a calculator.
Same is true for science. The current idea is to let students discover how the world and universe work on their own. Looks good in theory, but in reality, most kids never get around to figuring out things like gravity or even if the earth is in fact a sphere.
The level of ignorance in most high school grads (not all, the best and brightest seem to learn in spite of not because of modern teaching trends) is shockingly huge.
As for reading, that is, taking written information from a page or a screen and processing in one’s mind, that too just isn’t there anymore. It pretty much goes in one eye and out the other with no stop in between.
AI might fix some of this, but I think the problem is much bigger and worse.
How will they force AI to join the teachers’ unions?
“No child left behind!, no child left behind. Oh really? It wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Head Start-Left Behind. Someone’s losing f______ ground here.” - George Carlin
“No child left behind!,
Oh hooray! Altman wants AI data mining and running kid’s lives in elementary school and he say’s it’s to save us from DEI?
LOL, submit to your Palantir and AI overlords, then you won’t have to worry about woke.
Such bullshit.
No you don’t. But when billionaires peddling AI want to subject your children to their product, it isn’t because they care. It’s about profiting and exploiting your kids, and controlling what they see and how they think.
You’re being very naïve.
Sam Altman has nothing to do with Alpha—it’s Bill Ackman. And Alpha’s AI isn’t OpenAI or Palantir; it’s proprietary adaptive tools like AlphaWrite that cut class time to 2 hours so kids can spend the rest on projects and life skills.
This is about helping kids learn—not ChatGPT running their lives.
And you’re very stupid.
Your point is well taken. On top of that, DesertRhino is confusing Bill Ackmann with Sam Altman.
I will add that 2 hours a day seems rather light, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
When I was in grad school, I studied many hours a day and wished I had even more. I attribute my success there to coffee.;-)
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