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Yesterday, Fox ran a story headlined, “Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country.” It might say less about A.I. than it does about the woeful state of education in this country and hope for the kids.
And it says a lot that left-wing corporate media ignored the story.
This year, the Alpha School in Austin, Texas began experimenting with an all-AI curriculum. Students get two hours a day with an AI tutor, then spend the rest of the day practicing skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork. No teachers. The results so far have been spectacular.
Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price told Fox & Friends, "We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience for all of our students, and our students are learning faster, they’re learning way better. In fact, our classes are in the top 2% in the country.”
One Alpha parent tweeted yesterday that his kids are newly excited to go to school. After their two hours of personalized AI instruction, they leave their desks and get to do all kinds of fun, social things with other students...
Imagine how furiously the teachers’ unions will likely react: litigate, agitate, and regulate— the holy trinity of institutional self-preservation. They’ll scream about equity, invent “AI isolation,” and demand emergency funding for “human-first pedagogy.” ...
It’s night and day. Parents who can review AI chat logs have much more transparency into what their kids are learning. The technology even exists for parents to monitor the session in real-time. Contrast that with teachers unions’ successful bans on cameras in classrooms.
then spend the rest of the day practicing skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that parents in Maryland have the right to exempt their elementary school children from lessons featuring LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks in Montgomery County schools.
The case arose after the Montgomery County Board initially required LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks in 2022, then rescinded a policy allowing opt-outs, prompting parents to sue on religious grounds in 2023.
The justices held a lengthy oral argument in April, with a conservative majority expressing that failing to provide opt-outs imposed an unconstitutional burden on religious exercise.
Justice Alito argued that without court intervention, the parents' ability to practice their religion would face ongoing unconstitutional restrictions, while the dissent opposed allowing exemptions.
The court ordered Montgomery County to notify parents when LGBTQ books are used and allow excused absences during lessons, indicating potential wider effects on similar policies nationwide.
The Supreme Court held that a group of Maryland parents (Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox) may opt-out their elementary-school-aged children from any instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. The majority agreed with parents that the Montgomery County school board’s refusal to provide them with an opt-out violated their free exercise of religion.
Montgomery County lies in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and is one of the largest school districts in the country.
Astonishingly, the decision went far beyond gross, pornographic artwork in library books. One book, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, describes a little girl’s reaction to her uncle’s same-sex wedding; another book, Pride Puppy, describes a young dog that gets lost during a Pride parade and meets a variety of ‘colorful’ characters. Yet another, Born Ready, is about a character named Penelope who is initially treated as a girl but says, “inside, I’m a boy.”
The majority squared off —not just against inappropriate images— but against LGBT indoctrination itself.
The school board, Justice Alito wrote, “requires teachers to instruct young children using storybooks that explicitly contradict their parents’ religious views, and it encourages the teachers to correct the children and accuse them of being ‘hurtful’ when they express a degree of religious confusion.”
The holding was clear and stark: schools cannot ‘indoctrinate’ kids in socially experimental ideologies inconsistent with parents’ religious beliefs. Period. They must provide notice and opt-outs.
An overwrought Justice Sotomayor complained the majority’s decision will soon lead to banning books on evolution (!) or interfaith marriages — “and history may be next,” she warned darkly. History itself!
A nation slowly regained its sanity.
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