Thirty-four US states have issued AI guidance for schools
Thirty-four US states have issued AI guidance for schools. This year alone, more than 70 bills on AI in the classroom were introduced across 27 states. In England, the DfE has published principles and staff training, don't feed in pupil data, get parental consent, keep teachers in charge, but no ready-to-adopt policy pack. Which means the AI rules at your child's school were written by that school.
Read a few of them and a pattern appears: they are almost entirely about what pupils may not do.
Meanwhile, around a third of entry-level job postings now reference AI-related skills.
Read a few of them and a pattern appears: they are almost entirely about what pupils may not do.
That's the gap. A ban answers "how do we stop cheating this term". It doesn't answer "what should this child be able to do with AI by the time they leave at 18". The first is a discipline question. The second is a curriculum question. We are mostly doing the first.
To be fair, nobody is certain. I use AI agents daily in my own work and I'm still finding the edges. So this isn't schools writing badly, it's rules arriving before anyone has said out loud where we're going.
Would you rather your child's school wrote "don't use it", or "learn to use it well"?
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