Adding on to this with my own little anecdote because I 100% agree with this:
My school's curriculum is making us do 6 massive research tasks over the summer break this year, all of them are big essays that have to be focused on one topic, and we have to do extremely in depth research on all of them. I looked at some of the examples from the past year and they make my head hurt with how much stuff needs to be crammed into them.
They're all worth 20% of our grade in each subject too so we can't just ignore them. Plus we only had time to do two of them before school let out for the break because they involved experiments (it was for the science subjects, bio, chem, physics).
Crazy enough right? The summer break is there to make sure students aren't burned out, why are they making us do such important and time consuming tasks over what's meant to be a BREAK?
WELL IT GETS WORSE.
We had an assembly to talk about one of these research tasks and when it was time for questions, one boy in the crowd asks "will we be able to ask our subject teachers for help and feedback?"
And guess what the teacher presenting says?
"Oh no, it's their HOLIDAY, they can't be expected to work/be available during their BREAK."
My friends and I were all genuinely baffled. My best friend literally started nudging me and saying "who else's holiday is it again??"
It was genuinely the most disrespectful shit i've ever heard from a teacher. I don't understand how she could say that with a straight face and not realize the absolute fucking hypocrisy of her words.
The school is expecting us to do so much work during the holidays when we're meant to be resting, yet the teachers can't be expected to help us because "it's their holiday".
Schools don't care about students' mental health. They don't care if they're burnt out. They don't care if they have lives outside of school.
Schools only care about grades, and that's why students are using ChatGPT and all that shit to do their work for them. Look at it this way: why should these kids fuck up their mental health and social life if all this school needs is something that meets all the criteria for this task to give them a good grade? That's their reasoning.
School is meant to be more than grades, but it doesn't seem that way to students. To the students, the grades are the only thing that's important, so there's no reason to put themselves through so much stress and give up all their free time and hobbies just to have time to do the tasks the school sets. That's why they use AI.
When you look at it like that, it's a bit more understandable. Students shouldn't be using AI, but as a high-schooler that's part of the anti-AI crowd, i see the appeal. I've been trying to do some of the research tasks my school set LITERALLY ALL DAY. I can't find the statistics i need to create my model for the math class, my head is hurting, I haven't finished any of the other tasks, and i basically haven't even started on one out of the six. That one i haven't started on also happens to be the most important one because of course it is.
Also, it doesn't help that some teachers also use ai for literally everything without consequences. If teachers don't want kids using AI, they should lead by example.
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