Anonymous
09/08/2025 17:12
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Are we sure Chris Whittle isn’t behind this?!
Anonymous
09/08/2025 16:22
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Someone who claims to have attended Alpha School's campus in Austin, TX had this feedback:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/17feoeu/comment/mr5i99q/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/17feoeu/comment/mr5i99q/
Anonymous
09/08/2025 15:09
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Now a NYT article
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
So they avoid having to pay actual teachers, but get random “guides” to baby sit kids. So huge cost savings there.
The board members of many schools are employees of the vendors like Trilogy Software.
It’s a FOR PROFIT school
McKenzie was a mortgage broker before starting the school in 2012, ie she was part of the housing bubble scam until it burst, and switched to a new hustle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
So they avoid having to pay actual teachers, but get random “guides” to baby sit kids. So huge cost savings there.
The board members of many schools are employees of the vendors like Trilogy Software.
It’s a FOR PROFIT school
McKenzie was a mortgage broker before starting the school in 2012, ie she was part of the housing bubble scam until it burst, and switched to a new hustle.
Anonymous
09/07/2025 23:19
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Alpha School = Future Feynman School
Anonymous
09/06/2025 10:32
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like this is classical education wrapped up in AI for more educated parents. I’d run far away. These classical education people are everywhere now and absolute nuts.
Alpha school is the exact opposite of classical. Alpha with a helper or “guide” has a “guide in the side” approach while classical will definitively use the “sage on the stage” approach.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 20:52
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Sounds like this is classical education wrapped up in AI for more educated parents. I’d run far away. These classical education people are everywhere now and absolute nuts.
Anonymous
08/28/2025 14:45
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Yes, I am indeed in Charlotte. I've worked with most of the top independent schools over the years, or know people at them, and we're all just scratching our heads over the whole thing. Just screams that the people behind this have no read on the Charlotte landscape. Can't imagine that's any different from what's going on in Chantilly.
Anonymous
08/28/2025 13:56
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Anonymous wrote:We just had one open in my city as well. The two "guides" were imported from Texas. The lead guide has a BA in religious studies and a M.Div in biblical theology, both from Regent University. Best I can tell, he's never taught kids. Info on the other guide is harder to find beyond is school bio that says he's worked on the finance industry and taught at a "classical Christian school."
Yeah, that totally makes me want to fork over $45k a year for an "AI driven" education. Opening it seems very rushed to me. It looks like the company that owns these Alpha Schools swooped in and took over several former Guidepost Montessori locations and is hastily trying to get them up and running without much advance work.
At least in my city, $45k nearly double than what our top independent schools charge for K-3. Those are very established schools with great track records and deep community roots. And some outfit out of Texas thinks they're going to have any success change obscene amounts of money for a garbage education? In a part of town that the people with the means to spend $45k a year on school won't go to? Lol, yeah, okay. I give it 2 years, max, before they have to close due to very low enrollment.
I think you are referring to the Charlotte location and yes very puzzling why they think they would think that location would succeed vs putting it south of town. Although maybe they didn't want to compete with/be compared to the more established schools in South Charlotte.
Anonymous
08/28/2025 12:14
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Good luck at college admissions!
Anonymous
08/27/2025 19:42
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Sounds depressing. Literally.
Anonymous
08/27/2025 19:35
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Sounds to me like they’re targeting parents who think tech is inherently great—the folks who are into AI investments and “smart” vehicles and homes. I don’t know that many people exist like that as a percentage of population and how many of them want to pay $65k tuition.
It also seems to me that the school’s leadership think that teaching is about content knowledge. K-12 education is about pedagogy—how to motivate students, discern sources of misconceptions, help students overcome blocks. That takes experience and emotional intelligence that large language models don’t have and can’t mimic.
It also seems to me that the school’s leadership think that teaching is about content knowledge. K-12 education is about pedagogy—how to motivate students, discern sources of misconceptions, help students overcome blocks. That takes experience and emotional intelligence that large language models don’t have and can’t mimic.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 19:44
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
We just had one open in my city as well. The two "guides" were imported from Texas. The lead guide has a BA in religious studies and a M.Div in biblical theology, both from Regent University. Best I can tell, he's never taught kids. Info on the other guide is harder to find beyond is school bio that says he's worked on the finance industry and taught at a "classical Christian school."
Yeah, that totally makes me want to fork over $45k a year for an "AI driven" education. Opening it seems very rushed to me. It looks like the company that owns these Alpha Schools swooped in and took over several former Guidepost Montessori locations and is hastily trying to get them up and running without much advance work.
At least in my city, $45k nearly double than what our top independent schools charge for K-3. Those are very established schools with great track records and deep community roots. And some outfit out of Texas thinks they're going to have any success change obscene amounts of money for a garbage education? In a part of town that the people with the means to spend $45k a year on school won't go to? Lol, yeah, okay. I give it 2 years, max, before they have to close due to very low enrollment.
Yeah, that totally makes me want to fork over $45k a year for an "AI driven" education. Opening it seems very rushed to me. It looks like the company that owns these Alpha Schools swooped in and took over several former Guidepost Montessori locations and is hastily trying to get them up and running without much advance work.
At least in my city, $45k nearly double than what our top independent schools charge for K-3. Those are very established schools with great track records and deep community roots. And some outfit out of Texas thinks they're going to have any success change obscene amounts of money for a garbage education? In a part of town that the people with the means to spend $45k a year on school won't go to? Lol, yeah, okay. I give it 2 years, max, before they have to close due to very low enrollment.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 15:01
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
Neglecting your kids education is one thing, paying that much for them to get a BAD education is insane.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 14:45
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
"While other schools struggle to fit everything in, we complete academics in just 2 hours per day — giving us time to actively teach the life skills your child truly needs."
Sounds about right, shut up and take my money! (sarcasm alert)
Sounds about right, shut up and take my money! (sarcasm alert)
Anonymous
08/26/2025 12:21
Subject: AI Private School Chantilly
According to The Washington Post, it will cost $65k. Opening now, 2 hours of some sort of personalized AI learning and then stuff like learning to ride a bike. Not sure my brain can absorb this.
https://alpha.school/chantilly/
https://alpha.school/chantilly/