Over the last two years, officials in numerous states have questioned the model, characterizing it as “untested” and ”experimental.” In North Carolina, one charter school board member feared two hours was “not nearly enough” to teach required subjects. A month earlier, in August 2024, an official in Utah worried that the school’s instructors may act more like “a life coach” than a teacher

I agree with that assessment 100%, but it makes you question other things that get approved even though the same case applies. If were gonna apply that assessment to this kind of AI bullshit program, then the same standard should be held to all of the athletics-centered programs that are all over the place. There are tons of private programs where kids go to class for an hour and then participate in a sport for two hours and then back to class for an hour, etc. Hockey is especially rife with these kinds of programs because hockey kids tend to have money. Why is a school allowed to get any degree of public funding when half (or more) of the kid’s “education” is just playing a sport? Beyond public money, how is that considered an acceptable equivalent to an actual 8 hour a day public education?

They cant even make any argument that these kids are likely to be successful because of the sport. Odds are their academic skills will be too shitty to play for a college (if they are held to real standards), and the odds of them succeeding in athletics are slim to none considering how rare it is for someone to become a professional athlete. Sports based schools shouldn’t exist