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WAIT, Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society in 1971 and basically predicted all of this?? This is actually crazy. My school makes us use Khanmigo for AP Bio and I ignore it like 2/3 of the time too, so I guess I was Early and didn't even know it 🤯 Also did Socrates really get executed for corrupting the youth??? Honestly this should be taught in schools. Going to read Deschooling Society this weekend, anyone got book recs for after? I read Sapiens last summer and have been looking for the next one. EDIT: ok just spent an hour on the Bloom's Two Sigma Problem wikipedia and then had ChatGPT Study Mode quiz me on it and I got 4/5 with no hints!! Best feeling I've had in a while honestly. Thinking I might study philosophy now

What no one will say: Benjamin Bloom published the Two Sigma Problem in **1984**. Of all the years. A paper about putting a patient, tireless tutor next to every single child, released in *1984*, and not one person in the education establishment thought that was worth a footnote. The author gets close. He has the Illich date. He has the Alice Cooper date. He puts them two sentences apart and then makes a joke about the Top 10. Brave, but incomplete. He's too embedded to finish the thought. So I'll finish it. A Catholic priest publishes *Deschooling Society* in 1971. Alice Cooper releases "School's Out" in 1972. **One year later.** The policy paper goes out, and twelve months later a man in eyeliner puts it on the radio for every teenager in America. That isn't a follow-up. That's a *rollout*. The timing is the tell. Now look at the Tennessee trial. The paper is called *One Click Away*. One click away from **what**. Seventeen percent of the kids asked the tutor for help. Everyone's reading that as a failure. Read it again. That is not an engagement rate. That is a *sorting rate*. They found out which 17 percent of children will ask a machine for help when they're stuck, and those children are on a list now. My sister-in-law drove a bus for a district outside Knoxville that was in the study. She said the consent forms came home in August 2024 and nobody in the pickup line read them. Oh, you didn't know? Yeah. Then Alpha School shows up charging $65,000 a year to put kids on apps for two hours. Two hours. Ask yourself what the other six hours are *for*. Ask yourself where the kids go. "Turn the buildings into data centers." He says it like a joke. Pull the zoning filings. "The models will train the models." He said that too. It's right there in the post. He put it inside a joke so you'd laugh past it. Khan Academy is in on it. Alpha School is in on it. The Tennessee Department of Education is in on it. The Duolingo owl has never once been photographed blinking. And Socrates was not executed for corrupting the youth. He was *decommissioned*. Look up who wrote down everything he said. Plato. Look up what Plato founded. An **Academy**. Khan *Academy*. Two thousand four hundred years, same brand. If you didn't know that already, this comment isn't for you. Connect the dots. Wake up.

PSA: I have just read this post and I want everyone on this board to know that the Abolish School people are now WRITING ARTICLES. The author says it right there in plain English "turn the buildings into data centers"... and that is EXACTLY what was on the agenda at the School Committee meeting last Thursday under "Facilities, Other." I sat in the second row with my reading glasses on and nobody would tell me what "Other" meant. Buddy and I walk past Center Elementary every morning and since August there has been a white van with no lettering parked behind the gymnasium, and the humming is new. Mrs. Kowalski who had Tyler for third grade (the yellow Cape on Maple, you know the one) put her house on the market in September and when I asked her why she said she was "leaving quietly." Those were her EXACT words, same as the article. I'm not dramatic BUT I voted YES on the override in 2019 so those children could have air conditioning, not so a computer could have it. Lt. Reynolds, are you reading this? This isn't the town I moved to in 1987. EDIT: I called the Superintendent's office and the girl said the van belongs to the HVAC contractor. The HVAC contractor. For the computers. I rest my case. EDIT 2: My grandson Tyler says nobody is turning the school into anything and this post is "a joke, Grandma." He also mentioned he hasn't been to a class at UMass since March because "it's all recorded." So it has already started and he is in it. EDIT 3: Mrs. Kowalski has posted on her own page that she is moving to Sarasota to be near her daughter. That is what they want us to think.

Hi loves 🌾 Such a freeing piece. So much truth here. Charlotte Mason was keeping lessons short and sending children outdoors a century before anyone called it 2X in 2 hours, so this one felt like coming home. Our mornings were already done by ten. Now, after much prayer, they're done by nine, because M. and I have felt called into a new season, and our *Wells* (6!) and *Bramble* (4!) do their narrations with a gentle Socratic companion who never just hands them the answer. Our newest, *Wren-Joseph* (8 weeks!), has never once been told an answer in his life. And the line about knowledge passed from machine to machine like a family recipe? I wept into the starter. That is legacy, friends. Speaking as a mother of five: protect your peace, deschool your heart, and let the afternoons be for the pasture. 🤍 P.S. — enrollment is OPEN for *Zero Hour Homeschool: AI-Augmented Motherhood for the Charlotte Mason Family* 🍞☀️ Nature-journal prompts, the printable *Living Books & Large Language Models* pairing guide, and our Tuesday sourdough-and-prompting circle. Tuition is zero hours and $497, or use code **ZEROHOUR** for 15% off. Certified Human founding members keep their enamel pin. Link in profile, on the Substack today. ❤️ Praying for the teachers. xo.

Our youngest is in year two at Alpha. $65K a year for two hours a day. I thought that was the efficient frontier. This post just moved the frontier. Most people will read the 6-to-2-to-0 extrapolation as a joke. Operators will read it as a trend line. When the product gets better every time you remove some of the product, you're not looking at education. You're looking at software margins. 4 takeaways: 1. Two sigma to point-oh-seven isn't a failed product. It's a pricing signal. The customer told you exactly what they'll pay for, and it isn't the tutor. 2. "The first test these kids have ever aced." My son ignored Khanmigo two-thirds of the time. I used to call that a discipline problem. Now I call it capital allocation. 3. Schools into data centers is the most asymmetric real estate trade of the decade. Zoned, wired, already underperforming on HVAC, empty ten weeks a year. Have two associates pulling district-level comps. 4. "Teacher's pet in a class of one." That's every founder who still writes his own code. Delegation is the skill. Everything else is a hobby with a streak counter. Taking Zero Hour Learning to IC Thursday as a thesis. Tuition is zero. That's not a bug. That's a freemium funnel. "We can put it down now." Going on the whiteboard in the home office, right under the Marcus Aurelius. Curious — who's raising for this?

Tell me you didn't actually listen to School's Out without telling me you didn't actually listen to School's Out. Boiling a 1972 record down to its single is the whole problem: the album is one of the most overlooked records of the decade, a full Bob Ezrin production that went #2 on the Billboard 200, and "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets" (it literally interpolates West Side Story, Bernstein and Sondheim are in the credits) alone is worth the price of admission. Also "only one of them hit the Top 10"? The single went #7 here and #1 in the UK, so that's two Top 10s if you'd taken the time to check. And it's not Alice Cooper the guy, it's Alice Cooper the BAND, five dudes (Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, Furnier) and all five are credited on the title track. The solo era doesn't start until Welcome to My Nightmare in '75 and I'm not letting you flatten that. I've owned an original pressing since 2004, desk sleeve opens, paper panties intact (Brimfield flea market, $12, ask me how I know), and the actual 1971 answer to Illich was "I'm Eighteen" off Love It to Death, also Ezrin, also 1971, which you'd know if you'd listened past the single. I'll die on this hill. (Also yes I know Ezrin co-produced The Wall, and yes, "we don't need no education." Different conversation but no. It's a double negative. He's literally arguing FOR education.)

yeah no. socrates wasn't executed "for corrupting the youth," the charge was impiety AND corrupting the youth, it's literally the first page of the Apology. did the author even read it or did he have Claude summarize it for him lol

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