Feral Children

Can the algorithms save them?

Angry little boy glaring at the camera. iStock.com/dzigns

What happens when we keep kids out of school?

They go feral.

If all your kids see is family, that’s all they know. They learn, “This is what people look like,” people who are this color, act like this, dress like this, talk like this.

And people who don’t — aren’t people. They’re “other.”