It’s not quiet in the high school library anymore — it’s silent.

Not the peaceful kind, the charged kind. The faint tap of keys, the flash of tabs switching, the pulse of Discord. Someone’s running three AIs at once and pretending to take notes. This is what learning looks like now — an invisible current of intelligence moving just under the surface, powered by caffeine, curiosity, and contraband Wi-Fi.

Students aren’t rebelling. They’re syncing up. The underground they’ve built — half AI, half hustle — looks a lot like the offices their parents work in. There’s no difference anymore between how a junior in AP English and a junior analyst at Goldman Sachs gets the job done: both use AI to write, edit, summarize, polish, and present.

Even Wall Street admits it. Goldman Sachs CEO David So

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