GDS Teachers Used Chat GPT to Write Report Card Comments

[Anonymous]

This reminds me when a bunch of parents complained about email messages were too impersonal.

[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.

Disagree. I appreciate the comments, which have always been detailed in our experience with 2 kids, and I think it's a good way to get the teachers to think holistically about each student's performance. They also provide an excellent record over the years that teachers and counselors can consult when writing recommendations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Disagree. I appreciate the comments, which have always been detailed in our experience with 2 kids, and I think it's a good way to get the teachers to think holistically about each student's performance. They also provide an excellent record over the years that teachers and counselors can consult when writing recommendations.

so how do you feel about a large language model generating the comments? Betrayed I would imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Way to reward teachers for working harder instead of smarter. Maybe we need to retire these ancient teachers.

[Anonymous]

Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Disagree. I appreciate the comments, which have always been detailed in our experience with 2 kids, and I think it's a good way to get the teachers to think holistically about each student's performance. They also provide an excellent record over the years that teachers and counselors can consult when writing recommendations.

so how do you feel about a large language model generating the comments? Betrayed I would imagine.

I don't feel betrayed. People are tempted to experiment with new technology. I think it's inappropriate and shortcuts the thinking process that is key to writing worthwhile comments. I hope the faculty and administration will agree to discontinue the process and the administration will provide the support teachers need to make this a manageable task.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who finds this funny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who finds this funny?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who finds this funny?

Funny that parents who send their kids to GDS don't understand chatGPT, yea... it's like when my mom didn't understand call waiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

So it’s just formatting? Content is different for each student? Why can’t students use it if it’s just formatting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

I can see that someone with a superficial understanding of the writing process would think this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

I call BS. I do get it. I know the stresses and strains these teachers are under and that they are paid $50k per year and have to have multiple side hustles like overnight field trip chaperone to make a living wage.

I have not been a teacher but I have enough room in my brain and heart to see where they are coming from.

That said, don't berate my kid for using GPT to reformulate his opening paragraph when you are doing the same. Let's call it what it is. The teachers are being hypocrites and violating the code they signed up to honor as teachers.

If you tell me upfront you will use a LLM for this, then I can respond Make it the policy. And while you are at it, allow my kids to learn this technology instead of threatening the disciplinary committee if they are caught

You see my issue isn't with the teachers per se, as much as you want to believe that, my issue is with the abject duplicity. DO as I say, not as I do.

Or let's drop comments entirely except for kids who are underperforming or on a downward trajectory. Let's free the teachers from the tyranny of this artifice.

Just wait til the press gets hold of this stpry....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

So it’s just formatting? Content is different for each student? Why can’t students use it if it’s just formatting?

Students can.

If they use it properly there is literally no way the school would know. The problem is they use it to write a paper.

Seriously your kids were already using other tools this one is just smarter and only the stupid kids use it in a way that gets them caught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't one of the main points of paying for private education that your kid gets individualized attention and comments from teachers who care about their students - even if it means filling out 90 comment cards twice a year? That's the whole point

The issue is that administration gave them no guidance and then responded flat footed here in the story. Shame on GDS,

Now we will get clean up on aisle 6. I predict an email from head of HS friday after hours with some milquetoast statement.

I get it - it's hard to be a teacher and administrator today but the reply in this article by department chairs and school admin is beyond tone-deaf and entirely a bad lesson for kids.

"we get to use the tools but not you guys so go F off"

You do realize that the chatGPT does not create the individual comments right? You do know that the teacher has to write the comments and the chatgpt only put them in a better format, then the teacher can update each comments to be individualized.

You don't get it, you don't get being a teacher, you don't get technology, you don't get most things it sounds like from your post.

So it’s just formatting? Content is different for each student? Why can’t students use it if it’s just formatting?

Students can.

If they use it properly there is literally no way the school would know. The problem is they use it to write a paper.

Seriously your kids were already using other tools this one is just smarter and only the stupid kids use it in a way that gets them caught.

Literally sounds like the plot of the last South Park episode where Cartman leads the smart kids to use GPT and then a dumb kid uses it.

And then the teacher uses it to grade papers and is caught