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As part of the bootcamp, students are also required to pass an eyebrow-raising heart rate challenge, in which they’re hooked up to live monitors in front of their classmates and presented with a pre-recorded video of their parents berating them.

“The challenge rule was simple,” one student wrote: “my resting heart rate was 80bpm, and I had to stay within 10 percent of that the whole time. Anything above 88 was a fail.”

It isn’t clear what educational purpose this particular trial was supposed to serve, or what the penalty would be for students who fail the heart rate challenge, or the boot camp overall. At least one student said the eight-week hazing period is meant to “prove I deserve to be here,” though Alpha School didn’t comment on Riley’s inquiry.

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[-] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think this is what home schooling looks like in America. We got Prager U, and turning point USA trying to either force their way into public schools or usher in this weird private school credit system so that they can teach ai revisionist history like slavery was a good thing for both parties, and that the south actually won the civil war.

Or if its turning point USA they are going to work in a 3 day (9/9-9/11) program where you learn about Charlie kirk and 9/11 as if they are the same thing, and have to write a page about why charlie kirk was your hero, and why 9/11 is bad and patriot act good. Charlie kirk shooter=Taliban.

Theres lots of buzz on private and home schooling now in the states because conservatives are getting mad about trans people existing at schools and the schools trying to teach tolerance. Parents think teachers put out litter boxes in the bathrooms as a way to encourage furries, because Joe rogan and the news.

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