Elon Musk has revealed that he didn’t like his kids’ school, so he started his own.
He made the remarks while appearing on an interview on Beijing Television.
The school is called “Ad Astra” which means “To the stars,” and is small and relatively secretive with no website or a social media presence.
Christina Simon, who writes about private elementary schools in Los Angeles, has done some digging around Ad Astra and says she’s been in contact with a mother whose child attends Musk’s school.
The mother told Simon that the relatively new Ad Astra School is “very small and experimental,” and caters to a small group of children whose parents are primarily SpaceX employees.
Ad Astra, which is a year old, currently has 14 kids and will increase to 20 in September. His grand vision for the school involves removing grade levels, so there’s no distinction between students in 1st grade and 3rd.
“Some people love English or languages. Some people love math. Some people love music. Different abilities, different times,” he says. “It makes more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities.”
Musk pulled his kids out of their school and even hired one of their teachers away to start Ad Astra. “I didn’t see the regular schools doing the things I thought should be done,” he says.
So far, Ad Astra “seems to be going pretty well,” according to Musk. “The kids really love going to school.”
See more in the interview below.
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