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I’ve been saving this one for start of the school year. For those who start after Labor Day like it should be (my kids have been in school for nearly a month already). I took my boys to Alpha School in Austin during Spring Break this year. School during Spring Break, dad?! Yea, I suck. Tough. I also have a few friends with multiple kids each in the school. Friends who were quite opinionated about school in ways that resonate with me before they sent their kids to Alpha. They are quite happy with their kids’ experience and pushed me to come see it myself. I never got around to writing about my tour or Max’s shadow day but I was impressed. I’m not going to write a review because it’s already dominated by today’s Munchies. Scott Alexander’s annual essay contest includes a finalist that is the first-hand account of a reader who moved to Austin just to send his kid to Alpha. The essay is thorough. Read it: The message today isn’t one that Alpha owns but its methods flow directly from it. Th

Friends, I’ve been saving this one for start of the school year. For those who start after Labor Day like it should be (my kids have been in school for nearly a month already). I took my boys to Alpha School in Austin during Spring Break this year. School during Spring Break, dad?! Yea, I suck. Tough. I also have a few friends with multiple kids each in the school. Friends who were quite opinionated about school in ways that resonate with me before they sent their kids to Alpha. They are quite happy with their kids’ experience and pushed me to come see it myself. I never got around to…

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