Inside Alpha School's high school boot camp: tweets, heart-rate monitoring and a $50k tuition
benjaminjriley · x · 2026-09-08
Education researcher Benjamin Riley publishes a special report reconstructing life in Alpha School's high school boot camp from students' social media posts. Key facts: students must post on Twitter and gain 100 followers; heart rates are monitored while watching parental critique videos (within 10% of baseline); Riley, skeptical of the school's AI education vision, found the reports so bizarre he initially suspected a prank. The school charges $50,000 annual tuition in a small private network.
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