The multi-billionaire has been completely engrossed in education since he pulled his children out of “regular school” ten years ago. Furthermore, he is hardly the first celebrity to dabble in it.
If you’re not quite ready to implant one of Elon Musk’s chips into your brain, enrolling your children in the billionaire’s new experimental school is the best alternative. Elon Musk’s new school, Ad Astra, close to one of Space X’s facilities in Bastrop, Texas, is currently accepting applications from ages three to nine. With only 48 spots available, there is fierce competition to be a member of the “next generation of innovators,” especially considering Musk’s large family.
Although this is a new campus, Musk has ten years of experience in education. In 2014, the tech tycoon pulled five of his children out of their elite private school in Los Angeles and placed them in a conference room at SpaceX with the children of some of his colleagues and tutors. Musk clarified in a 2015 interview that he wanted to try out his far superior ideas because he did not like the way the “regular schools’ were operated. They featured a curriculum with students using flame throwers to battle robots, but there was no music, sport, or language instruction; all of these will be done by computers in the future.
Having “all the children go through the same grade at the same time, like an assembly line” is another innovative teaching strategy introduced by Muskian. It appears that he is pleased with the progress his assembly line has made, as he intends to establish a university. Presumably, the students will learn how to fight the “woke mind virus.”
Musk is not the first famous person to dabble in education. With Oprah Winfrey, Pitbull, and Will Smith all trying their hands at teaching, it appears that a custom school is the new status symbol.
However, many of these schools have served as examples of how not to handle teaching. Numerous complaints have been filed against Kanye West’s controversial Donda Academy, for instance, where children were allegedly required to sit on the floor and only eat sushi.
Not much better was the performance of WeGrow, the $42,000-per-year vanity project founded by WeWork founder Adam Neumann and his wife, Rebekah. It pretended to be a private school and immediately shut down at the same moment WeWork collapsed. Nevertheless, a relaunch under the name Student of Life for Life (SOLFL), which is pronounced “soulful,” is planned. It sounds “awful” and is pronounced “awful.”
