AI in Schools: Policing It Will Break You. Designing With It Won’t.

If you’re a teacher in 2025, you’ve probably had one of these moments. You’re marking something that reads a bit too polished. You’re watching a pupil “magically” leap two writing grades overnight. You’re in a meeting where the conversation turns into “We need to catch them”. That instinct is understandable. It’s also a trap. Because policing AI is a workload strategy. And it scales horribly. Use the PPA Buddy model, Decide, Design, Demand, to design routines where thinking stays visible across primary, KS3, GCSE and A level.