10 Questions to Ask Your Child's School About AI
A parent's checklist of ten questions to ask your child's school about AI, with what a good answer sounds like, words to say at each age, and a table you can save.
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Helping families decide when AI supports learning and when it starts doing the work instead.
This section collects 9 pieces on Homework and Learning, including reviews, reported notes and practical guidance.
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Do Teachers Use AI to Grade My Child's Work?
Gallup found that 2 percent of US teachers use AI daily to grade or give feedback and 7 percent weekly. The number that matters more is 58 percent: the share who have been given no guidance on it at all. What the evidence says, and what to ask your child's school.
How to Tell If Your Child Used AI for Homework
You mostly cannot tell from the homework itself, and the tools sold to catch AI writing miss more than parents expect. What works instead is one question, asked at the kitchen table, that checks the learning rather than the text.
Should Kids Use AI in School? Why the Ban Is Not the Thing to Watch
School districts are switching AI off while national governments fund it. A former school leader explains why the policy is not what decides how well your child ends up using AI, and the one question to ask your school this term.
AI Tutors for Kids: Do They Work, and Which Kind Helps?
Some AI tutors help and most of what you can buy has never been tested. The two trials that exist point at the same thing: whether the tutor will refuse to give the answer. Here is how to check before you pay, and what a tutor still cannot do.
Can I Opt My Child Out of AI at School? What You Can Actually Ask For
Most parents have no general right to opt a child out of AI at school, but you can ask which tools are switched on, see your child's records, and request an alternative to one named tool. What changed since August, and how to word the request.
Is AI Making Kids Dumber? No, But the Ones Who Hand Over the Work Score Lower
No. The OECD's PISA 2025, the largest evidence yet on AI and children's learning, found no sign that AI makes children less clever. What it found is narrower and far more useful at home: what your child asks AI to do matters more than whether they use it at all.
How Is AI Actually Used in Schools? What Your Child's Teachers Are Doing With It, From the Inside
Most of the AI in a school sits on the teacher's side of the desk, and the bans in the news stop pupils rather than teachers. Here is where it actually is, what a school's "AI policy" usually covers, and the one question that gets a real answer.
Is Using AI for Homework Cheating? The Test Teachers Actually Use
It depends on which part of the work the AI did. A former teacher explains the line between help and cheating, the test teachers really use, and what to say at every age.