Cara Zelas

But again, coming back to the equity piece, it does widen that gap and it does leave children behind that don't have the social means to navigate the system, to find the funding and also the time and the money.

So there is definitely the equity piece.

Yeah, I'm sure that there's many children who fall through the cracks, but also I think it gives a lot more choice to families choosing to see what works for their family and for their children.

Well, I think that the Alpha School works for older students, but I advocate in early childhood to be almost tech-free because I feel like early childhood is the last frontier in education

where we can focus on things like curiosity play creativity human connection the zero to six age range is the most important time in a child's development that's when they're forming the foundations of everything else that is to come and think about it how much a child grows between zero to six they learn to walk

talk, read, write, communicate.

Learning slows down after six years old, if you think about it.

Think how many milestones are reached between that.

Learn how to use the toilet, eat.

There's so many things.

And I think in that stage of development, less tech, the better.

Yeah, I think if EdTech is replacing human connection, we have a problem.

I think human connection comes before everything else.

And that's one piece we can't automate.

That's one thing AI can never replace is that human connection.

And as soon as we move away from making human connection and interaction less than EdTech, then I think we're coming into a problem.

I think where we can use technology, as I said, was, you know, administration, helping teachers with their workload, whether it's lesson plans, report writing, all that nitty gritty stuff that is behind the scenes that take up a lot of time.

And now teachers are asked to do way more of that.

And I think AI can help teachers really streamline that process.

And also it can also support maybe