Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From OpenAI website- if used as offered, student info WILL be populated to OpenAI and students to use-will be another consent FCPS asks for to share student info.

“…workspace where teachers can securely work with classroom materials and student information, collaborate with colleagues, and learn from other educators.”

Exactly. It says "data analysis", I can only think of students data

[Anonymous]

I have so many concerns with this. Obviously AI is a useful tool when used appropriately. It should not be replacing the skill of teachers. It should be a tool that enhances their professional skill set. I’m concerned about them using AI to do something like grade papers. Concerned about data protection.

I do not want my child to be the guinea pig of teacher ChatGPT or an experiment with the reckless AI companies. None of us asked for this. It’s certainly not an exciting or celebratory worthy announcement. I hate this school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ChatGPT for Teachers can among other things provide support, planning, communication, translation, and data analysis at no cost to schools until June of 2027.

I would love to hear what this means. AI has great potential in education. But if badly managed it could be disastrous. And education is notorious for bad management.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher who uses AI as a tool. It doesn't do my grading for me; it makes my grading faster.

For example, AI has helped me develop targeted rubrics and comment banks based off the skills/standards I teach. This allows me to shave hours off my grading and students receive feedback faster.

No student data went into AI, so there's no security issue. I'm still grading every single paper by hand and I'm still leaving robust comments. I'm simply getting it back to students 7-10 days earlier now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ChatGPT for Teachers can among other things provide support, planning, communication, translation, and data analysis at no cost to schools until June of 2027.

I would love to hear what this means. AI has great potential in education. But if badly managed it could be disastrous. And education is notorious for bad management.

Agree. And FCPS is especially notorious for bad management.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher and a parent, I am infuriated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher who uses AI as a tool. It doesn't do my grading for me; it makes my grading faster.

For example, AI has helped me develop targeted rubrics and comment banks based off the skills/standards I teach. This allows me to shave hours off my grading and students receive feedback faster.

No student data went into AI, so there's no security issue. I'm still grading every single paper by hand and I'm still leaving robust comments. I'm simply getting it back to students 7-10 days earlier now.

I am a professor and I use AI in a similar manner. I will also feed it my own course materials and have it help me come up with new variations on exam questions or case study narratives. It’s a great tool if you already know what you’re doing, what you are looking for, and know enough to detect any inaccuracies. I don’t ever feed it any writing or work that is not my own, and I never put any names or identifying information into a prompt. I am sure some lazy teachers will consider this their green light to just feed student essays into ChatGPT and have it generate grades for them.

AI is terrible if you don’t already know the information and you rely on it for answers. I have caught multiple students answering test questions with the same incorrect information they got from ChatGPT. I think I saw that Kim Kardashian just failed the bar exam again after using ChatGPT to study!

I do not like the idea of FCPS teachers potentially putting my kids’ names and work products into ChatGPT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the worst idea I have ever heard. Just contributes to laziness. Bring back textbooks and real curriculums. I don't want AI generated content or worksheets. I can tell when a teacher uses chatGPT because there is usually something wrong.
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November 19, 2025

Dear FCPS Families,

Every day, I am inspired by the resilience, creativity, and promise of our students – and the responsibility we share to provide them with the tools and opportunities they need to find their futures in a rapidly changing world.

We are entering what I believe is this generation’s “Sputnik moment.” The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every part of our society, and our nation’s schools will continue to be a critical place for both possibility and responsibility. As countries and industries around the world move swiftly to develop and apply new technologies, we must ensure that our students and staff are prepared to lead – not follow – this work.

That is why I am pleased to share that working together with OpenAI, FCPS will be in the first cohort of school divisions across the nation to help guide how ChatGPT for Teachers will roll out across the United States. We are trailblazing a path for hundreds of other school divisions and communities to follow.

ChatGPT for Teachers can among other things provide support, planning, communication, translation, and data analysis at no cost to schools until June of 2027. With ChatGPT for Teachers, OpenAI is delivering strong privacy and security safeguards, ensuring FCPS privacy and security standards are being upheld in these tools. Additionally, this tool will only be available for staff use.

AI will never replace the heart of teaching or the human connections that are foundational to the high-quality education we provide all our students. But AI can remove barriers, save time, and open doors to new ideas and spark innovation in the classroom and beyond.

By working together – students, families, staff, and community partners – we can equip our young people with the skills, confidence, and curiosity they need to meet the future with purpose. Together, all things are possible!

Take good care,



Superintendent
Dr. Michelle C. Reid

Ha. Wanna bet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher who uses AI as a tool. It doesn't do my grading for me; it makes my grading faster.

For example, AI has helped me develop targeted rubrics and comment banks based off the skills/standards I teach. This allows me to shave hours off my grading and students receive feedback faster.

No student data went into AI, so there's no security issue. I'm still grading every single paper by hand and I'm still leaving robust comments. I'm simply getting it back to students 7-10 days earlier now.

Genuinely curious how creating a rubric and comment banks shaves 7-10 days off of grading. Did it take 7-10 days to create a rubric and think of comments before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher and a parent, I am infuriated.

Has anything been communicated to the teachers ahead of this email about being the educational experiment for teacher ChatGPT? This is atrocious. Does the superintendent and school board really think we’re excited that our children’s education is going to be an experiment- led by for profit and unethical ed-tech company? OMG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher and a parent, I am infuriated.

Has anything been communicated to the teachers ahead of this email about being the educational experiment for teacher ChatGPT? This is atrocious. Does the superintendent and school board really think we’re excited that our children’s education is going to be an experiment- led by for profit and unethical ed-tech company? OMG.

Nope. News to us.

[Anonymous]

Truly sad. The vendor has taken a page out of the drug dealers book by offering free product. Once hooked FCPS will be paying millions of dollars a year for a tool that teachers will by and large not be equipped to use without significant training to properly develop prompts, address hallucinations and effectively deal with interfacing with a generative AI tool.

Also very skeptical from a dat privacy standpoint. School systems are not know as bastions for protecting PII.

[Anonymous]

I feel myself tipping into luddite territory, but this is AWFUL.

We already have kids entering college who can't read real books, nor can they write using paper/pencil or a word processor. How will this help?

[Anonymous]

Gross. I refuse. The day they require me to use AI in my classroom is the day I quit. I don’t care if that makes me an old fogey (I’m 39), but this has no business in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross. I refuse. The day they require me to use AI in my classroom is the day I quit. I don’t care if that makes me an old fogey (I’m 39), but this has no business in a classroom.

I'm a high school teacher. It's already here. My students are using it all the time: to get answers, to develop tests to study for, etc. It's one of the reasons I have gone back to paper for certain assignments.

The students are going to be using it whether or not we want them to. That's simple fact. If they aren't using it in our classrooms, they are using it on our assignments at home.

We can either adapt our teaching to accept this new reality or we can shut it out. If we adapt, we can teach students how to use it as an effective tool and we can explore its ethical uses. If we shut it out, the students are simply going to be using it anyway.

We see it all the time at the high school level now. I've taught myself how to use it and I now consider it a personal assistant. That also means I can knowledgeably talk about it with my students. These are conversations that have to happen, whether we want them to or not.