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Chamath: School AI bans will trap progressive city students in poverty
“And I think what it will do is it is a self-imposed form of modern segregation. And it is going to completely push an entire generation of kids in these cities that are subject to these rules into poverty, and it will keep them there. And so in as much, I thin…”
Liemandt: Bringing AI Education Models to Public Schools Will Take a Decade
“I think it is going to be a decade to get it to public school, and part of what we are doing is we have to show, we got to get the data, right?”
Liemandt plans to dedicate the next 20 years to reforming public education
“My vision on this is I'm gonna spend the next 20 years of my life on this. Right. And I'm gonna need all 20 to get the, get everything in public school spread. For sure.”
Liemandt: Reforming public education is impossible because parents disagree on its purpose
“The biggest issue, education is hard because you have to define the product, and your customer bases have very different needs, right? This is why when I talk about public school being impossible, you, parents do not agree on what the purpose of an education i…”
Freitas: Would Reject Public School Even with an Ideal Curriculum
“What I tell people is if the public school overnight taught everything that I loved, I still wouldn't send my kids. And the reason why is because of the str the structure that it's been set up to achieve.”
Solivan: Public education is too slow and underfunded for venture capital
“From a venture investor standpoint, which is where my brain works you know, the industry is so fragmented it's slow, it's underfunded and there's not a lot of room, you know, to innovate.”
Kennedy: Traditional schools strip children of critical thinking and creativity
“We're putting, first and foremost, inside of them this intrinsic desire to accomplish, to create, to collaborate, to critically think. And those characteristics are not being taught in school. I argue that they're actually being taken from them.”
Public School Teachers and Counselors Are Playing Therapist With Students
“Their mandate is trauma-informed care across public schools, social, emotional learning, and parent, teachers and counselors, armies of counselors are playing shrink with the kids all day long.”
Rajamani: India has 100,000 private schools and up to 1M public schools
“India has got about a 100,000 private schools and maybe five or 10 times that in terms of public schools.”
Latta proposes splitting schooling into a four-hour core and student-directed pursuits
“I think my proposal is two systems. I propose one system that's like normal public school that where you have a high floor, low ceiling, everybody learns to read and write, but it's hard to go off the beaten path, but that only takes like four hours a day or s…”
Rep. Khanna: Broad school choice will further deteriorate public schools
“If I thought that you could have that and have this choice fine, but the challenge is you're going to have a few people who take advantage of it, and then there would be even a further deterioration. Of the place where 90% of people go public school.”
Ferguson: US public school system is pathologically dysfunctional due to teachers' unions
“We have a Pathologically dysfunctional system of education, particularly in public schools, because the power of the teachers' unions is too great. It's a vested interest. It's hurting our kids, especially poorer kids.”
Jaswa: 95% of California private schools opened while public schools remained closed
“From August on something like 95% of private schools were open, while in California, basically no public schools were open.”