South Korea is about to unleash a Orwellian nightmare in its classrooms, and parents are frantically sounding the alarm. Next year, tablets with AI-powered textbooks will be introduced, and by 2028, teachers will be forced to indoctrinate students with soulless, digital curriculum designed to optimize “learning efficiency” – but at what cost to our children’s humanity?
The government is mum on the details, except that the tablets will allegedly be programmed to adapt to each student’s individual “learning speed,” and teachers will monitor their every move like robots. No word on how they plan to safeguard against data collection, cyberbullying, or emotional manipulation – or if the poor, neglected art teachers will finally get a chance to shine amidst this sea of code.
A courageous group of more than 50,000 parents have dared to stand up against this tech-savvy tyranny, demanding that policymakers prioritize the well-being of our children, who are already drowning in a digital void. “We, as parents, are already fighting an uphill battle to keep our kids away from the endless abyss of screens,” one worried parent confessed to the FT. “These tablets are just another symptom of society’s addiction to tech over humanity.”
Mother of two Lee Sun-youn succinctly summarized the dread that’s spreading among Korea’s parent population: “Digital devices are already ravaging their ability to think critically, communicate face-to-face, and form genuine connections. Have we not learned from the ruinous consequences of screen-time saturation? We can’t let the altar of progress and efficiency be sacrificed to the gods of algorithms and clickbait quizzes.”
