Alpha School's AI-driven model lets kids master academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for real-world skills like leadership, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Mastery-based learning means no child gets left behind or held back — every student moves at their own pace. This is what genuinely personalized education looks like, and Boston families deserve access to it.
Alpha School's AI generates faulty lesson plans that insiders say do more harm than good, and the school scraped online course data without permission to build its system. Replacing licensed teachers with unlicensed "guides" and laptops strips kids of the social development that elementary school exists to provide. At $55,000 a year, Boston families are paying top dollar to be test subjects for an unproven model.
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