alt Hacker News>I don't think you'll find anyone opposing the former, but what's the alternative to the latter?
If parents want to pay 65k per year to have some corporate entity track their child's every keystroke, I guess that's not my place to pry. I will call them stupid, though. This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.
> individual human tutors: insanely expensive, out of reach for even well paid programmers, or you have to home school
again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better
>This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.
So sounds like your objections are over data governance?
>again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better
The problem with this setup is that you still have public school eating up 6-8 hours of your kid's time per day. If you add after school tutoring afterwards that doesn't leave a lot of free time. The value prop, at least according to one of the parents who has his kids there[1] is that you get through the standard curriculum stuff in a fraction of the time, so you can spend the rest of the time on whatever your kid's interested in.
[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school