GDS Teachers Used Chat GPT to Write Report Card Comments

[Anonymous]

https://theaugurbit.com/2023/03/19/ai-generated-report-card-comments-worry-some-parents-and-students/

Wow.

Am I wrong to be outraged by this? Esp. since the same teachers have warned that kids caught using Chat GPT will face consequences, bad grades, disciplinary actions.

[Anonymous]

It's outrageous. There are a lot of things the school has done that are really concerning lately. Lack of judgement.

[Anonymous]

I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://theaugurbit.com/2023/03/19/ai-generated-report-card-comments-worry-some-parents-and-students/

Wow.

Am I wrong to be outraged by this? Esp. since the same teachers have warned that kids caught using Chat GPT will face consequences, bad grades, disciplinary actions.

You are not wrong.

[Anonymous]

That article sounds like satire. WTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop it

Ha ha ha!

[Anonymous]

I have sympathy with teachers who have to write 90 comments. But the solution isn't GPT. The solution is for the school to drop the requirement for comments entirely. It should be viewed as optional. LMS parents have 2 yearly parent teacher chats and even in High School teachers always reach out when grades fall below a level.

The correct policy decision for admin is to drop comments as being viewed as required and to communicate to parents

Expecting overwhelmed teachers to write paragraph essays fpr each kid is not great = maybe by exception for very good, very bad, or surprising trajectory but should not be the norm

Using GPT is WRONG and cheapens the exercise.

[Anonymous]

It does sound like an April Fool's issue. Is it OP?

[Anonymous]

I cannot love this more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop it

[Anonymous]

This is so stupid. You don’t need Chat GPT to generate report card comments at GDS, at least in middle school. All you need is a random word generator.

Seriously, two years ago there were meaningful and highly specific comments. And then MS admin went on some sort of anti-subjective grading rampage, and now you get pablum.

[Anonymous]

GDS will not discriminate against AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have sympathy with teachers who have to write 90 comments. But the solution isn't GPT. The solution is for the school to drop the requirement for comments entirely. It should be viewed as optional. LMS parents have 2 yearly parent teacher chats and even in High School teachers always reach out when grades fall below a level.

The correct policy decision for admin is to drop comments as being viewed as required and to communicate to parents

Expecting overwhelmed teachers to write paragraph essays fpr each kid is not great = maybe by exception for very good, very bad, or surprising trajectory but should not be the norm

Using GPT is WRONG and cheapens the exercise.

I couldn't disagree more! "Sympathy" is hardly required. Public school teachers have 300+ students in MS and HS, and I received sentences or fragments of sentences for DC. When you pay $50k for teachers who have a fraction of that student count, dropping comments entirely is ridiculous. The article states, "I found it really helpful because you’re writing over 50 student comments." At $50k tuition, they need AI to write comments for 50 students?!?! It's outrageous, and parents certainly deserve a paragraph at report card time to better understand/gauge their DC's performance and progress.

[Anonymous]

I have to give gds admin props for letting the Bit publish such extremely embarrassing content, this being only the most recent example.

So funny.

[Anonymous]

I highly doubt this happened.