Originally Posted by Bostonian
(3) automating instruction threatens teacher employment
Most recently (in the past 3 years), in local public high schools (in CA) where there are budget cuts and lack of funding for several programs, school managements adopted the "flipped classroom" model in order to cover as much academics as possible with the least number of teachers on their payroll. As you said, automating instruction threatens teacher employment, and in this case, actually helped when a lot of the teachers got laid off.