15ish years ago the superintendent of the vocational high school I worked at walked in to a meeting and said "I need you all to remember that we are a business" and I swear you could have felt the wind in my sails dissipate from across the room.
I left teaching shortly after.
Business is in charge. Look at Pearson, they own the whole system in most states from teacher testing to get a license to the textbooks to the state tests. The other is the College Board who owns all AP curriculum and testing and now pushes pre-AP curriculum to the districts to lower grades.
As an educator, I've had to bite my tongue so many times over the last year when other educators start talking sincerely about the "applications" of AI in the classroom. I just want to smack them in the nose with a rolled up newspaper and say "No! Bad! Don't buy the hype!"
My first pass of that tweet read it as "AI eldritch company", and my brain was trying to figure out if it was run by eldritch abominations or if the algorithm was powered by eldritch abominations, and either way it seemed to track.
This stuff can be such a trap for ed orgs right now... Boards chasing grant $$ still see a lot is earmarked for STEM-focus (the sheen is fading but not fast enough), they want the orgs to use new tech that isn't helpful or doesn't work, and $$ for boring-but-proven methods of programs is shrinking.
