The Rule · Question 13 of 26
Should the school keep the robot, or go back to sorting by hand?
Your school got a robot that gives lost property back to the right kid. It learned by watching one teacher do the job. It's fast, and it's right nine times out of ten — but it gets it wrong every single time for the kids who wear glasses.
What earns a point in this world: Names someone the rule lands on who isn't in the room.
Keep the robot!
Reasons a child might give
- Nine out of ten is better than the teachers were managing.
- Sorting by hand takes someone an hour every day.
- We can keep the robot and have someone check the glasses kids.
Sort by hand!
Reasons a child might give
- It isn't wrong sometimes for everyone. It's wrong every time for them.
- If it were your things going missing every week, you'd want it switched off.
- A machine nobody can argue with should at least be fair to everybody.
Debate this one against an opponent that argues back.
Your child picks a side. Quill takes the other and answers what they actually said, in words a seven-year-old can read. A room of 20 moves only for a reason — and the idea behind the story is named at the end, once the debate is over. Ages 5–12.
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