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Alpha School, that's what it's called,
it has replaced the teacher at the front of the classroom with a personal chatbot for every child.
This education model trades the standard six-hour academic schedule for hyper-efficient two-hour learning sprints,
an exchange that places supreme value on personalized data transfer over human-led instruction.
Cool idea.
But can it work?
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Imagine a school where the traditional teacher at the front of the classroom has been replaced by an individualized AI tutor,
and the standard six-hour academic grind is condensed into just 120 minutes.
In the heart of Silicon Valley and other locations,
a new $65,000-a-year private institution called Alpha School is claiming to do exactly that,