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How Big of A Problem Are ChatGPT Essays in Top Private Schools?
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Anonymous
| Are many kids using generative AI to write essays in the top DC private schools? If so, what kind of grades do these kids typically get with them? Are the schools doing anything to combat AI use? |
Anonymous
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Um, it's also happening in public schools.
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Anonymous
sure, but private schools tend to have stricter academic standards, meaning offloading your work onto a third party comes with higher risks. |
Anonymous
| Our school mentioned in a newsletter that there have been a high number of honor code violations going before the honor board related to unallowed use of AI on assignments. But for any students using AI who aren’t caught, I would have no way of knowing what grades they are getting from their cheating. I also don’t know what punishments those who are caught are getting. The school doesn’t give out honor board decisions, nor should they. |
Anonymous
So typical. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
When discussing bad behavior like cheating, bullying, vaping, etc., many posters on this forum say that it’s just typical of all ES/MS/HS kids, private and public. That the schools have no control and that’s just the way it is. When it comes to good behavior, private school students are sooo far above public school kids and their schools are magical places full of wonderful, tippy top students and faculty and staff, and of course, parents. And don’t you dare bring public school kids into the discussion. Mmm hmm. |
Anonymous
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Teachers are adopting by getting handwritten assignments in class early so they can evaluate how the students write/their voice and then use prompts for papers that would be hard to generate via AI.
Generally speaking, in-class assignments will become more normal going forward. |
Anonymous
| It is also really bad for kids that are getting false positives. Teachers are forced to tell administrators if they think something is Ai, even if it isn't. Ai detectors are used but they aren't always right, which creates a big issue. Many schools have policies where you can't copy in-paste stuff into your document, but if kids just type it out it gets harder to tell. Specially for formal writings in high school teachers are relying on ai detectors, but false positives are making it so people are getting unfairly punished. |
Anonymous
The relevant question isn't whether it's happening both in private and public, but whether [problem X] is more prevalent at one vs. the other. |
Anonymous
Getting accused of using AI is like someone getting accused to being a witch in Salem. |
Anonymous
| It’s happening at private and public schools in huge numbers. This isn’t a conversation about private vs public. AI is here to stay and educators, like all of us, are completely ill equipped to overcome the challenges. |
Anonymous
| The head at our school recently cited a few books in a newsletter article she wrote about the challenges of AI, and these books will be summer reading for faculty. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick. Also, John Warner’s More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI and the companion, The Writer’s Practice. Reading these books might be more productive than arguing private versus public in this space. |
Anonymous
| We gladly signed a release that gave the school permission to inflict corporal punishment if AI was used by our child. |
Anonymous
| A student in my DC's school who was poised to be Valedictorian ended up losing that status when she got caught using AI. I don't know what other consequences she suffered. |