Why Our School Arguments Are Nonsense in the AI Era
AI Didn't Break Education. It Exposed the Broken Argument.
We’re still fighting over the wrong thing.
Public vs. Private. Charter vs. Homeschool. Microschool vs. Comprehensive. We treat these categories like holy wars. But all of this is completely, totally, and thankfully, finally obsolete.
We still keep screaming into the void: “What skills does a student need to compete??”
It’s the wrong question. It’s a relic of an era of scarcity, designed to pit us against each other for a handful of high-paid chairs. We tortured kids with solo work and “don’t look at your neighbor’s paper” because we thought hyper-individual competition was the point.
Here’s the brutal truth: AI can out-individual any individual. It can code, write, and analyze better than a single human. The game of “out-skilling” each other is finished. AI wins.
So what’s the point?
The only question that matters now is: “What skills does our community need?”
What does our town, our block, our world need to survive? The climate-changed world outside doesn’t care what school my kid went to. It cares if he can collaborate, empathize, and solve real problems with others.
The old system isn’t behind. It’s just done. It was a factory for individual competitors, and the factory’s main product is now automated.
So let’s stop the nonsense.
We say things like "The future will belong to kids who..." Fuck that. The future belongs to ALL KIDS. But not if we keep them competing with one another.
There is no Public vs. Private. There is just Education. Each family will find their path. The pod, the co-op, the school. That’s all fine.
The goal isn’t to get everyone in the same building. It’s to orient every path toward the same North Star: the common good.
Our kids don’t need to be the best in the world. They need to be the best for the world.
It’s time we started acting like it.
Kunal
PS: The next revolution in education won’t come from a new platform, a new model, or a new label.
It will come from a neighborhood deciding:
“We’re raising these children together.”
And meaning it.
