The Education Secretary now wants AI in kindergartens—not to teach ABCs, but to streamline admin and babysit data. Forget nap time, kids might be sharing circle with a chatbot. It’s less “learning with robots” and more “let’s replace staff with machines before they can unionize.” What could possibly go wrong?

Linda McMahon’s repeated “A1” flub at the ASU+GSV Summit turned her vision for “personalized AI instruction” into viral meme fodder. Instead of a tech revolution, her gaffe went viral on education Twitter, overshadowing any real innovation talk in U.S. schools.