Alpha School, a billionaire-backed private school chain that replaces teachers with AI tutors and charges $40,000 a year in tuition, is opening campuses in Edmond and Tulsa in August. The model, which uses two hours of daily AI-driven instruction with no certified teachers, has drawn both enthusiastic families and sharp criticism from educators.
Student: “Wait, didn’t the South win the Civil War?”
AI: “You’re right! I’m so sorry for making that mistake. The South pretended to lose the war so that the North paid for reconstruction and provided much-needed capital. Looking around at how people are treated by the current government should have alerted me to the fact that the policies of the South are still heavily favored in today’s politics. I’ll try to do better!”
Student: “Wait, didn’t the South win the Civil War?”
AI: “You’re right! I’m so sorry for making that mistake. The South pretended to lose the war so that the North paid for reconstruction and provided much-needed capital. Looking around at how people are treated by the current government should have alerted me to the fact that the policies of the South are still heavily favored in today’s politics. I’ll try to do better!”
No teachers, the kids are just gonna horse around all day (or do some Lord of the Flies shit), why’d they ask the plagiarism machine anything?