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Originally Posted by 68style
Was sitting down for dinner with a friend who's a highschool teacher in Calgary, she was saying she's taking courses to change careers to become a counsellor instead because she's quitting teaching... and the main reason she's quitting is AI and phones... sounds horrific at schools. She said she spends almost half of her lecture just telling people to stop looking at their phone and they're not allowed to confiscate them, somebody won a fight saying it's personal property and emergency things they may need to be contacted for, etc.
She also can't give out assignments because everyone just takes the assignment and feeds it through ChatGPT and gets it written for them. She said kids are so fucking stupid now it's not even funny, most of them can't spell and don't know proper grammar function... it's too depressing so she's just done.
The only way she can really force material comprehension is through in-class tests where they can't ask a computer for the answer or look at their phones, but then she said 80% of the class ends up failing and the principal rings her up for why her % are so low or parents are complaining the class is too hard and she has to re-test everyone with dummy questions to make them all pass and let them be the next teacher's problem.
Hooray for AI hahaha
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We have a friend who was in the same boat even before phone use and AI exploded
Cant remember which school he taught at but it was the richest public school catchment in Canada, somewhere in West Van. For Christmas and summer holidays parents would give him like vintage bottles of dom worth $1500 and he like “hehe I know it’s not much but here’s a little somthing”
He said a quarter of the kids are undiagnosed autistic idiots who cause havoc for the rest of the class, and like you said, there is no winning from the teachers side. When he would try to bring it up with parents saying your child is disruptive or causing issues for others in the class the parents would snap and go to the principle, school board, or higher trying to justify their stupid kids existence in the class. The parenting or home life was -never- the issue it was the school/teacher.
He said it eventually got so bad people would dump these kids off and use public school as a day care for kids who needed counseling or more and then blame him for not providing them an education or good grades lol.