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By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight.  Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.

Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”

Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

El oh fucking el. Can't wait to see how AI handles a classroom of rowdy pre-pubescent teens

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Drone strikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are individuals sitting in their house. So if they get rowdy their parents deal with their kids. Kids in these grades legally can't be left home alone in most states either. So it's just stay at home parents who don't want their kids to go to public school or have to drive them to a private school, or doing any work to homeschool them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

That's such lazy parenting. AI is lazy parenting for lazy parents and lazy school administrations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's the neat part: It doesn't!