This looks very poorly thought out by the site alone. The quotes are all concerning as well because all three of them have emdashes. Maybe they're paraphrased, but then those aren't the actual quotes from those educators.

Parents and teachers who are willing to put middle schoolers in front of screens more are doing our future a disservice. There are real studies (none that I can find on Bloomy) showcasing how this negatively impacts students [0]. I doubt you'll find a correlation that more screen / compute interaction at younger ages improves long term cognition as it's not how kids develop.

Beyond this every parent should run after a glance at the privacy policy and the sheer number of different backend services required to run this. This is a privacy nightmare, long-term, for kids who have no choice. School districts, and a lot of parents, don't understand any of this. I don't even see how this abides by laws in some states simply because there are no protections of model training by some of the examples provided in the privacy policy. This does not abide by our state laws requiring a provider to be able to remove student data permanently within 90 days. In fact no LLM that doesn't have a "no train" clause abides by this simple requirement and it's unfortunate that districts will get sued over using tools like this in the near future.

My advice to this is: if you want to build a tutor then target parents. When you try to shove this down the throat of every student in a district you're making a lot of assumptions and impacting many negatively long term. This may be great for disadvantaged areas, but this is not how kids need to learn. They need to learn, explore and make mistakes on their own and not be preconditioned to the easy answer.

The iPad generation of parenting is about to get a whole lot darker as more and more of these types of companies are taking shots at easy targets, like school districts, with little to no studies behind impacts.

Finally, very expensive! I ran a simple 5 student cost calculation and it's over $2000 a year for those students. And that cost does not include math which is currently not available which would be another $1400.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

I also have several years' experience writing standardized test preparatory materials. Ultimately the reading comprehension modules serve the end goal of teaching students discrete skills, which roll up into standards. Those standards are (as you point out) the main focus of standardized, summative tests.

We encourage students to read real books! We have an AI writing tool that integrates with schools' novel studies curricula to generate a wide variety of prompts so that students can engage in long form writing about the books they are reading.

You do ACT / SAT prep and tutoring, correct? Just wanted to be clear, because the description here sure makes it sound like you're a high school teacher.