[sunny--tech]

> “Danner, who invested $1 million shortly after Lambda School's Series A, compared the complaints to his own experience launching the charter school Rocketship Education, which received public backlash for teaching elementary-school students on laptops without instructors for part of their day.

"They said we were experimenting on the backs of children," Danner said.

"But when SpaceX launched their first five rockets and they blew up, was that OK?" he continued. "We're in a more high-stakes world of human development. Still, you can't say that you don't like the way things are but don't want people to try new things."

This is one of the problems of mixing VCs in the education space. “Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when the “things” are humans, not code and technology.

Also, last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days.

Good ol’ fashion false equivalency.

[lostinquebec]

> last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days.

Is your criticism that these places are making false promises, or:

> “Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when the “things” are humans, not code and technology.

RCTs and placebos work exactly this way. People literally die to help us learn what does and does not work. We lost 8-9 months of COVID-19 deaths because of a system that needs to go slow, and yet had experimentation regimes that still put participants at risk.

I don't know of any verification method that doesn't require some degree of risk for the participants, but I'd love to hear one.

[lozenge]

People joining trials aren't given fake information about how 70% of participants are given immunity from COVID...

[sunny--tech]

Why are you bringing up vaccines and medicine in a discussion about bootcamps?

I’m criticizing both the false claims and the VC model of hyper scaling and hyper growth being applied to education.

"Move fast and break things" isn't the motto of the medical industry, but it is for tech. So how is this even related?

If you want to talk about medicine, that’s a completely different discussion.