It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don’t ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) “well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once.”
It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don’t ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) “well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once.”