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Sun Jun 29, 2025, 11:30 AM Sunday

The Headmaster Of The AI Apocalypse

Backed by tech money and Donald Trump’s executive orders, MacKenzie Price is out to replace teachers everywhere with AI.

Katya Schwenk

June 24, 2025


MacKenzie Price’s “future of education” looks more like a Silicon Valley fever dream than anything resembling a classroom.

In videos that the Austin, Texas-based influencer and entrepreneur shares of students at her dozen or so K-12 schools, a ten-year-old boasts that he is a successful Airbnb manager, while another constructs a miniature Cybertruck. High-schoolers take “business calls,” lounging in a WeWork-style open office space.

Academic instruction in Price’s schools is delivered via a suite of online education apps for two hours per day, leaving the afternoons free for Cybertruck construction and tech CEO make-believe. This is the brand around which her work revolves: 2 Hour Learning, which is billed as an “AI tutor” that can entirely replace all classroom teachers via a few hours spent glued to a laptop screen.

“The traditional education system is poisoning our kids’ minds,” Price told her Instagram audience of 750,000 in October. She delivered the prognosis calmly, sitting under a blue neon sign reading “Future of Education,” the name of her podcast and social media channels.

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Not from The Onion, folks, not The Onion.


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McMahon has her A1 sauce. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #1
And if you don't think RWers will see this sort of thing as an ideal way to brainwash kids and get highplainsdem Sunday #2

highplainsdem

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2. And if you don't think RWers will see this sort of thing as an ideal way to brainwash kids and get
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 12:24 PM
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rid of individual teachers who might be liberals - guess again.

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