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Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud here -- everyone wants to believe in education improvement but there's a harsh reality of the industry that is pretty unpleasant to confront.

I think the only hope would be to run a pilot and show such an improvement in student testing levels that it would be fast-tracked or mandated for approval.

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…or be accused of cooking the books, labeled as anti-union, or other ad hominem attacks.

I’m not a fan of SV edutech ventures for various reasons, but the school districts that they hope to sink their pointy teeth into have very effective immune systems against change.

Yes, I LOLed at your comment. K-12 is especially soul crushing for tech startups, which is why I now think of K-12 school district buyers like Obi Wan thinks of Mos Eisley.

Maybe part of it is seeing education as a massive untapped wallet? There's a reason Teachers Pay Teachers exists and frankly, given the greed of Silicon Valley and existing ED companies, isn't it an environmentally created immune system?

Teachers and administrators have decades of experience at getting treated as targets for culture-war grandstanding. Having a 28yo tech CEO barely older than their students tell them that a cool website will reverse the effects of poverty is probably just a different flavor.

Maybe. I'd love to see whatever the Apple + MECC version would be today.

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