Traditional schooling vs AI contrast

Your Kid’s Homework Isn’t the Hill to Die On

Your Kid’s Homework Isn’t the Hill to Die On Let’s get this out of the way: AI is here, it’s not going away, and it’s about to bulldoze skills we’ve worshipped for centuries. Spelling. Long division. Knowing the capital of Burkina Faso without looking it up (it’s Ouagadougou - and no, that won’t pay your rent in 2035). Everywhere I look, parents, teachers, and op-ed warriors are panicking: “If kids use ChatGPT, they won’t know how to think critically, or write, or talk to each other!” As if teenagers were all Shakespearean poets and Oxford debaters before 2022. ...

August 11, 2025