AI is only useful right now as a stress test as it reveals how hollow adolescent work has become. If it pushes schools toward offering work with relevance, impact, and agency and away from hopeless busywork (“When will I ever use this?”), that is a win.

Vile misunderstanding of why we have kids practice what they’re learning. Math is trivial to do with a calculator, but learning how to use, y’know, numbers, involves a lot of repetitious demonstration. You will obviously need skills to read and process boring minutia or infuriating nonsense. The fact we’ve calculator-ized reading a page of text is not some damning critique of essay questions for reading comprehension. No more than ‘a train leaving Chicago at 8:30–’ can be answered by looking up at the timetable. We need proof that people know what concepts mean.

A person who only learned math with a calculator can only do math with a calculator. What do you think is the real impact on a person who only learned to think with a chatbot?