Silicon Valley Elite Paid $75,000 per Year, Sending Kids to AI Private School as "Guinea Pigs"

According to Dongcha Beating monitoring, in the United States, some affluent Silicon Valley families are beginning to bid farewell to the traditional "teacher lectures, students listen" classroom model for their children. In emerging private schools like Alpha School, children no longer have to stare at the blackboard during lessons; instead, they hold a tablet every day, with AI software customizing the curriculum based on each individual's learning pace. The live teachers in the school have instead devolved into "daily coaches," not delivering lectures but only handling discipline or providing psychological counseling when children are stuck. With only 2 hours spent on core subjects such as math and reading each day, the rest of the time, children can engage in projects at the entrepreneurship workshop or participate in sports activities. Another AI school, Forge Prep, goes a step further by encouraging students to start their own companies and develop products hands-on to build a portfolio of projects, replacing traditional final exams. They have even introduced an AI principal available 24/7 for answering questions.

However, this avant-garde experiment has also faced significant scrutiny. Parents paying an annual fee of $75,000 are essentially offering their children as free trial users to AI tutors that are still in the early stages of development. Faced with the current polarized public opinion, the founder of Alpha School opted to avoid trouble and publicly announced that they will not teach topics such as women's rights, slavery history, and immigration history in the curriculum. Schools like Forge Prep withhold teaching data, making it impossible for outsiders to know if AI education is effective.