They’d paid for a “human-centered” school”. When the subject came up at dinner parties, they’d say that they could provide the Agentic education at home, they wanted the school to offer something different. They always stayed to watch a teacher usher the children in from the playground every morning. The teacher was always under instruction to wave at the assembled parents. They recognized her at the parents’ evening. She invited them to sit and smiled again. The school has organised the seating so they could see each other, shake hands: her screens and their teaching assistants safely to the side.