Alpha School dad defends feedback bootcamp: it sparked hours-long deep talks with his son
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-09-13
A parent of an Alpha School student (abatalion) pushed back on concerns about the school's "receiving critical feedback" exercise: his son came home with deeply personal questions about who he was becoming, leading to a multi-hour conversation that stayed private between father and son. RachelVT42 added that high schoolers are less fragile than assumed, deconstruction/reconstruction is a necessary phase in ambitious training programs, and not long ago teens were trusted with real jobs.
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