The state's charter school board approved an application on Monday from Unbound Academy to open a school with a two-hour per day academic curriculum set by AI.

Should we hire more teachers, increase their funding? Nono, let’s do two hours of ai slop and call it a day.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks to financial support and lobbying by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, many public and private schools have integrated personalized learning software like IXL and Khan Academy into their teacher-led curriculum

    “The founders of Unbound Academic Institute began with opening a high-end private school, Alpha, for the same reason Elon Musk started with higher-end Teslas: to create a product that generates insights and funding for future research and development,”

    Are parents actually sending their kids to these things? Is it like how charter schools in some places work where they defund public education for black kids and give them vouchers to go to charter schools?