When I was a kid people said the same about typing, homework has to be handwrittena because no boss will ever accept a typed report.

We had the same when media studies became a lesson, everyone freaking out that kids learning to watch TV is stupid but of course that's not what they're getting taught - media literacy turned our to be a hugely important subject even for those that don't go on to work in the huge and ever growing media sector.

Teaching kids to use AI tools effectively is the same, you hear it and imagine 'they put homework prompt into chatGPT and hand in the output' it's the same as imagining media studies as being nothing more than watching TV. AI is going to be an ever more present and useful tool in our lives so kids need to learn how to leverage and utilize it or they'll be at a huge disadvantage.

You can't hold back time by denying your kid a full education, they need to know how to effectively use the tools everyone else will be using.