Paddy Moore

A father just asked the most dangerous question in education right now. His 16-year-old overslept for school. His reaction surprised even himself. Camillo: “Does any of this really matter at all right now? Like, what are you even doing?” He can’t say it out loud to his kid. But he can’t stop thinking it. Camillo spent years being strict about attendance and grades. The traditional playbook. Show up. Study hard. Get the degree. Build the future. Then he watched what AI is doing to that playbook in real time. Camillo: “Every single kid in America is using AI for every single assignment and every single test.” Not a vocal minority. Not the tech-savvy outliers. Camillo: “I don’t think people realize. It’s close to 100% of every high school and college student using AI for close to everything that they do.” The student gets a math worksheet. Takes a photo. Uploads it to Gemini. Asks it to show the work. Done. If 100% of students are using AI to pass the test, the test isn’t measuring intelligence anymore. It’s measuring willingness to comply with a system that stopped being relevant before it had time to notice. Camillo: “The world is moving so quickly, and I can’t even imagine the stuff that you’re learning and how slowly it…” He doesn’t finish the sentence. He doesn’t need to. Curriculums take years to update. AI is rewriting the global economy in real time. The gap between what school teaches and what the world requires is now unbridgeable. And it’s widening every single day. The kids aren’t failing the system. The system is failing the kids. Slowly. In public. With everyone watching and nobody saying it out loud. Camillo just did.