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.
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?