Melania Trump's robot stunt was unsettling, but here reason is worse: to promote replacing human teachers with robots.
This is no one-off. It's the newest front in the GOP war on education.
Conservatives hate kids learning to think for themselves.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/30/why-maga-fears-human-teachers/
Amanda Marcotte
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