Fwiw - if you watch the video all the way through - the participants bring up pretty valid issues that you would broadly expect young people to care about, they aren’t as posh as internet leftists are making them out to be, and good political role models are far and few between in this country 😮‍💨

Of course kids have rich inner lives! But we should never think they are beyond understanding, or else we will not even try to understand them.

It’s why a blanket ban like this is such an unsatisfying, barely surface scratching solution to the vast issues that kids and families are facing today.

Instead, we must – as always – look to more transformative possibilities, like transforming the way we assess or even abolishing grades altogether...

Anyway, figured sharing this essay was a good enough reason to finally get on BlueSky :)

Young people today have grown up in an environment where $$ is poured into punitivity – police, prisons, but also AI detection and proctoring software – but there somehow never seems to be enough left over for their schools or educators.

A punitive 'crackdown' on AI use will not solve these crises.