Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their childrens’ schools

Private schools are not bound by bureaucracy, and can swiftly change policy directions. Illustration: Eleanor Davis/The Guardian

German Gil spends most of his waking hours looking at screens. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between start-ups and giants including Netflix, Facebook and GitHub.

But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he wanted her to have a different experience, one in which his “kid could be a kid”.