“Second- and third-graders are expected to coordinate and manage their own play dates to teach socialization and relationship-building skills. In middle school, students will be challenged to secure $10,000 for a start-up business they’ve crafted to build skills in entrepreneurship and financial literacy.”

This is a great grift. Death to this shit hole

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxRsLvRLY4

    “So we don’t have teachers. We have guides.”

    “If you have a question or you don’t understand-”

    “So you can google like a youtube video… looks off camera… and you can also ask a guide for clarification and if you’re still stuck then you can book something called the coaching call where a remote coach- it’s like on a zoom meeting and they come and help you”

    They’ve reinvented the underfunded public school during COVID, but as a luxury fascism incubator. I fucking hate charter schools. They are child abuse masquerading as education.

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    At the flagship campus in Austin, the only high school version of the program, the school is seeking a guide who will be “a blend between a TikTok strategist, content coach, and startup advisor” to teach our future

    Sentences dreamed by the utterly deranged

    pay 40000 a year to win 10000 by one kid is chefs-kiss

    Reminds me of an old joke about how to make a million on the stock market by starting with 10

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    Honestly this seems less like “AI is teaching in 2 hours what standard schools teach in 8!” and more “Small class sizes and personalized learning help a lot.” the article mentions a class size of 12 people

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    students will be challenged to secure $10,000 for a start-up business they’ve crafted to build skills in entrepreneurship and financial literacy

    Just what we need, a factory churning out startup dudebros by the thousands