AI Tutors Are Writing Better Progress Reports Than Teachers

The observation that landed this week was institutional in scope even when expressed personally. The parent who wrote 'this is going to break something' ^[3] was not describing a tutoring session — they were describing a documentation standard that schools have never met and that a consumer AI product now routinely clears. The second post ^[5] sharpened the same point: the expectation for a kids' product in 2026 was low, and the actual output exceeded it enough to warrant public comment.