Students are engaging with AI faster than schools can respond. Districts need a real literacy strategy, not just a usage policy. New York City gave 600,000 elementary and middle school students an answer to the AI question, and it’s no. The nation’s largest school district announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, calling it the most “expansive ban of its kind in the country.” High schoolers get restricted access and mandatory “critical thinking”…