GDS Teachers Used Chat GPT to Write Report Card Comments

[Anonymous]

They can pre-write canned responses instead and tweak to an individual student to give examples.

I used to do this when I wrote employee reviews. I'd save good comments and use them again and again for different staff, or myself when I wrote self-reviews.

[Anonymous]

It’s no different than using a smart thesaurus.

We use chatGPT for work all the time. Catch up.

[Anonymous]

Only 50 kids? Get back to us when you have to provide comments on hundreds of written assignments each quarter for the more than 200 kids you teach.

[Anonymous]

This happened and it pisses me off as a parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

My two takeaways are that the student newspaper should be commended and that the school has some serious problems. Look at the entirety of the front page of that site.

[Anonymous]

Parents should not be fooling themselves into thinking that teachers write highly individualized comments for each student. 80% of content is generic. Unless your child is exceptionally good or exceptionally bad, most comments are probably cut and paste, anyway. I don't think that Chat GPT is changing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s no different than using a smart thesaurus.

We use chatGPT for work all the time. Catch up.

Right so let's not penalize and threaten kids who use it for essays. Pot calling the kettle black.

If it's all mimicking real world work where we use tools to help us in our jobs, then why should kids not learn how to use those tools

Instead GDS teachers - english and history - threaten kids about GPT and then use it themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents should not be fooling themselves into thinking that teachers write highly individualized comments for each student. 80% of content is generic. Unless your child is exceptionally good or exceptionally bad, most comments are probably cut and paste, anyway. I don't think that Chat GPT is changing this.

OP here totally agree. Let's drop the charade then. Let's stop with the required comments in each report card. Let's just make comments by exception only. And let's make sure to communicate this to parents and teachers.

This half dance with the haha we all know the comments are recycled and meaningless is truly worst of all worlds.

Tell kids one thing about GPT being part of the moral corruption of young minds (I see you UL philosophy teacher / 9th grade English teacher) and then doing the opposite when it comes to our own word

Like so many things GDS, if this is not an April fool's, then this is exactly in character w/ the virtue signaling I've grown to accept this school loves. Say one thing and do something entirely different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

My two takeaways are that the student newspaper should be commended and that the school has some serious problems. Look at the entirety of the front page of that site.

The Augur Bit has been awesome the last two years. They take on the school's BS.

For instance the canceling of the long time beloved school #2 who wrote a school history bc the BlackatGDS account claimed he said a word in an assembly when repeating some graffiti or something that had been sprayed in a bathroom. Just that caused this dude to be forgotten by school admin - read it
https://theaugurbit.com/2023/01/12/kevin-barr-gone-again-wants-gds-to-take-a-hard-look-back/

Great investigative piece where they uncovered that the school, afraid of its own shadow, basically shadow-banned the book he wrote on school history. school responded and made book, sitting in a closet, available for sale.

Huge props to the kids who write and edit this paper. As a parent, it's become vital monday morning reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happened and it pisses me off as a parent

The article does not read like an April Fool's. That said, are we sure it's real? Meaning do you have firsthand knowledge this is real?

It feels real but before I go to school leadership, I want to make sure it's not satire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened and it pisses me off as a parent

The article does not read like an April Fool's. That said, are we sure it's real? Meaning do you have firsthand knowledge this is real?

It feels real but before I go to school leadership, I want to make sure it's not satire

Go to leadership and ask them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

My two takeaways are that the student newspaper should be commended and that the school has some serious problems. Look at the entirety of the front page of that site.

The Augur Bit has been awesome the last two years. They take on the school's BS.

For instance the canceling of the long time beloved school #2 who wrote a school history bc the BlackatGDS account claimed he said a word in an assembly when repeating some graffiti or something that had been sprayed in a bathroom. Just that caused this dude to be forgotten by school admin - read it
https://theaugurbit.com/2023/01/12/kevin-barr-gone-again-wants-gds-to-take-a-hard-look-back/

Great investigative piece where they uncovered that the school, afraid of its own shadow, basically shadow-banned the book he wrote on school history. school responded and made book, sitting in a closet, available for sale.

Huge props to the kids who write and edit this paper. As a parent, it's become vital monday morning reading.

Thanks for posting that. Will read.
I'm worried by so many things recently like the secrecy and overreaction to the student discussion about the early college admissions this year.

[Anonymous]

https://theaugurbit.com/2023/02/08/class-meeting-addresses-seniors-responses-to-college-decisions/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

X1000. Teachers use such lame excuses to get out of doing any work there. I have had kids in three other independent schools and teachers hold themselves to such a higher standard there. I will say that a lot of it is done by millenial teachers so from every year going forward I am requesting the oldest teachers there. I don't need a lazy 23 year old teaching english and math - and yes that's happened to us two years in a row.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s no different than using a smart thesaurus.

We use chatGPT for work all the time. Catch up.

Right so let's not penalize and threaten kids who use it for essays. Pot calling the kettle black.

If it's all mimicking real world work where we use tools to help us in our jobs, then why should kids not learn how to use those tools

Instead GDS teachers - english and history - threaten kids about GPT and then use it themselves.

I use and editor also at my work when I create a document for industry. Shall I fire my editor because students are not allowed to hire editors for their papers?

I think kids should learn to use the tool. But they can't have to tool write their papers and act like it is their work.

It would be silly for a student to not use chat GPT to see if they missed something in an outline or to find a better way to express a thought.

Really teachers drink wine and also warn students not to drink.