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AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work (futurism.com)
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As part of the bootcamp, students are also required to pass an eyebrow-raising heart rate challenge, in which they’re hooked up to live monitors in front of their classmates and presented with a pre-recorded video of their parents berating them.

“The challenge rule was simple,” one student wrote: “my resting heart rate was 80bpm, and I had to stay within 10 percent of that the whole time. Anything above 88 was a fail.”

It isn’t clear what educational purpose this particular trial was supposed to serve, or what the penalty would be for students who fail the heart rate challenge, or the boot camp overall. At least one student said the eight-week hazing period is meant to “prove I deserve to be here,” though Alpha School didn’t comment on Riley’s inquiry.

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago

I remember talking to my wife's family when we were moving last year telling them a big reason we were moving was to get in a better school district before our kids started school. I was shocked by the amount of them that asked "are there no good private schools in the area?" "Why not private school?" And even "oh yeah I heard "oh yeah I've heard is going downhill". I was always shocked. Keep in mind our old town didn't have any private schools, the closest one in the state was 45 minutes away.

We moved from a town that had like an F on some school rating website to one that has a D+/C. Some people were also shocked about that, " why not move to ? They have great public schools".

Like money isn't a factor and it blows my mind

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