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Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

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Re: Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

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So, professional educator here, with fifteen years of high school teaching experience. If the sample passages and questions on the front page accurately reflect what's inside this, I would not let my kids go anywhere near it. You've chosen to use the most generic AI-generated prose, when you could have licensed or hired writers to craft thoughtful, rich passages. I doubt you've consulted any serious standardized test…

"professional educator here, with fifteen years of high school teaching experience" 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.

Both. I do classroom teaching as well as SAT / ACT verbal tutoring.

Re: Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

#112
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curious how the tutor handles a kid who's confidently wrong. from the description the ladder kicks in at the first sign of struggle, which sounds like it's built to prevent mistakes rather than use them. kapur's productive failure work points the other way, students who commit to a wrong approach and then get shown exactly where it breaks tend to keep the concept. the ones who got steered away before making the mista…

do you think running LLM output through .lowercase() will hide the fact that you are posting AI generated comments?
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