MCPS is okaying students and teachers using AI on assignments

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Anonymous wrote:Kids don't need to learn how to use AI in elementary or middle school or even most of high school.

Don't give them access to the internet. Have them learn to read and write and do math using pen, paper and calculators in school and MCPS will achieve more than it does now.

+1

You need to wake up and understand we live in a competitive world, one in which most children will access the internet, learn a ton, and use AI effectively. You cannot live like a digital Amish and then expect to benefit from the fruits of everyone's tech expertise later on in life.

I think for ES/MS AI shouldn't be allowed, but for maybe Jrs/Srs in HS, it makes sense for them to start learning how to use AI effectively.

Agree with a PP, AI is here to stay, and in today's job market, you need to know how to use AI. This was the message that some commencement speakers at colleges tried to explain to graduates (much to their disgust, and those speakers got boo'd. I do think the speakers were tone deaf about it).

It's not just the tech sector that's pushing AI on their employees. It's happening in other industries, too.

My DC is a UMD and had one professor tell them that they can use AI but only for certain parts of the assignment. DC has also used it for other purposes, but they always check the output. UMD has its own AI tool (powered by OpenAI) that students can access. I think colleges are now seeing the writing on the wall and incorporating AI use in its curriculum.

College is a great time to learn to use AI, after you have learned fundamental writing and math skills

I kind of agree with you, but I think HS kids will definitely use AI, and so putting guardrails around it makes sense.

Maybe for home assignments but there is no reason why they need to have access to it at school. Don't allow cell phones, don't use Chromebooks, do work either pencil and paper. That's what the schools that tech bros send their kids to do.

Let's be real. The tech bros don't actually do that, and they spin it to make themselves look good. Of course, those kids have cell phones, laptops/chromebooks and tablets. If that's what you want for your kids, fine, but I want mine to function in the real world.

Yes, they do. This is one of the schools they send their kids to: https://www.waldorfpeninsula.org/explore

You can give your kids cell phones and laptops but have them go to school where they don't have access to these things and can therefore focus on learning.

These tech people don't want their kids to have access at school because they themselves have intentionally pushed to ensure their products are as distracting as possible during the school day in order to increase engagement from school age kids and increase their own profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nlA.TxAz._2Pq7SFKjc4k&smid=nytcore-android-share

One slide presentation illustrated how this could happen. If someone began a YouTube session with a query about linear equations, the platform would first offer a learning video, the presentation showed. But after that, the algorithm would recommend a Will Ferrell comedy video.

A Google spokesman said the documents were outdated. In 2022, the company released a tool that allows teachers to remove ads and recommendations on videos they assign students to watch, said the spokesman, José Castañeda. He also said that YouTube could be blocked, and that browsing on the site had been turned off by default on school Chromebooks for a decade.

But teachers and parents said that even when YouTube and other sites were blocked, students used internet proxies and other workarounds. And schools often allowed YouTube browsing so children could do research, which Google said highlighted its educational value but which made policing its use more difficult.

[Anonymous]

AI is not appropriate or safe for children and they should not be required or encouraged to use it for their school assignments. AI is like a drug and there should be AI safety education in schools.

An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help users argue that Black people are “dumber than white people.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Abstinence only education doesn’t work with sex or drugs. It won’t work with AI.

Do you let your kids drink at home too?

Do you keep your head in the sand and hope they figure it out on their own?

You teach them how to navigate so they can use safely. Unless you want their peers to show them the ropes…

Teach your children how to live in the real world.

[Anonymous]

I agree that kids need to be actually learning more in school. More reading. More writing. More research.

However what I don't agree with is that parents should have any input on whether that education is properly being evaluated. I am sick and tired of parents complaining to me that I "incorrectly" graded or evaluated a student's paper or claiming that I somehow have biased approaches to my grading simply because they don't like that their child got less than an A. If you truly believe any of that to be real, you should be ecstatic for me to be using AI that will essentially hold every student to the exact same standard without knowing anything about the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Abstinence only education doesn’t work with sex or drugs. It won’t work with AI.

Do you let your kids drink at home too?

Do you keep your head in the sand and hope they figure it out on their own?

You teach them how to navigate so they can use safely. Unless you want their peers to show them the ropes…

Teach your children how to live in the real world.

You can teach them drug and alcohol safety without having them use/drink it on a daily basis. A parent that was giving their underage child alcohol daily is not teaching good habits, they are imposing bad habits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that kids need to be actually learning more in school. More reading. More writing. More research.

However what I don't agree with is that parents should have any input on whether that education is properly being evaluated. I am sick and tired of parents complaining to me that I "incorrectly" graded or evaluated a student's paper or claiming that I somehow have biased approaches to my grading simply because they don't like that their child got less than an A. If you truly believe any of that to be real, you should be ecstatic for me to be using AI that will essentially hold every student to the exact same standard without knowing anything about the child.

AI is absolutely biased, seriously you all need to learn about these technologies before insisting you should be using them with children

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't need to learn how to use AI in elementary or middle school or even most of high school.

Don't give them access to the internet. Have them learn to read and write and do math using pen, paper and calculators in school and MCPS will achieve more than it does now.

+1

You need to wake up and understand we live in a competitive world, one in which most children will access the internet, learn a ton, and use AI effectively. You cannot live like a digital Amish and then expect to benefit from the fruits of everyone's tech expertise later on in life.

I think for ES/MS AI shouldn't be allowed, but for maybe Jrs/Srs in HS, it makes sense for them to start learning how to use AI effectively.

Agree with a PP, AI is here to stay, and in today's job market, you need to know how to use AI. This was the message that some commencement speakers at colleges tried to explain to graduates (much to their disgust, and those speakers got boo'd. I do think the speakers were tone deaf about it).

It's not just the tech sector that's pushing AI on their employees. It's happening in other industries, too.

My DC is a UMD and had one professor tell them that they can use AI but only for certain parts of the assignment. DC has also used it for other purposes, but they always check the output. UMD has its own AI tool (powered by OpenAI) that students can access. I think colleges are now seeing the writing on the wall and incorporating AI use in its curriculum.

College is a great time to learn to use AI, after you have learned fundamental writing and math skills

I kind of agree with you, but I think HS kids will definitely use AI, and so putting guardrails around it makes sense.

I disagree. If something is bad, it is bad and should not be allowed at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't need to learn how to use AI in elementary or middle school or even most of high school.

Don't give them access to the internet. Have them learn to read and write and do math using pen, paper and calculators in school and MCPS will achieve more than it does now.

+1

You need to wake up and understand we live in a competitive world, one in which most children will access the internet, learn a ton, and use AI effectively. You cannot live like a digital Amish and then expect to benefit from the fruits of everyone's tech expertise later on in life.

I think for ES/MS AI shouldn't be allowed, but for maybe Jrs/Srs in HS, it makes sense for them to start learning how to use AI effectively.

Agree with a PP, AI is here to stay, and in today's job market, you need to know how to use AI. This was the message that some commencement speakers at colleges tried to explain to graduates (much to their disgust, and those speakers got boo'd. I do think the speakers were tone deaf about it).

It's not just the tech sector that's pushing AI on their employees. It's happening in other industries, too.

My DC is a UMD and had one professor tell them that they can use AI but only for certain parts of the assignment. DC has also used it for other purposes, but they always check the output. UMD has its own AI tool (powered by OpenAI) that students can access. I think colleges are now seeing the writing on the wall and incorporating AI use in its curriculum.

College is a great time to learn to use AI, after you have learned fundamental writing and math skills

I kind of agree with you, but I think HS kids will definitely use AI, and so putting guardrails around it makes sense.

I disagree. If something is bad, it is bad and should not be allowed at all.

+1

Much less encouraged, definitely not something "every student should have access to"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that kids need to be actually learning more in school. More reading. More writing. More research.

However what I don't agree with is that parents should have any input on whether that education is properly being evaluated. I am sick and tired of parents complaining to me that I "incorrectly" graded or evaluated a student's paper or claiming that I somehow have biased approaches to my grading simply because they don't like that their child got less than an A. If you truly believe any of that to be real, you should be ecstatic for me to be using AI that will essentially hold every student to the exact same standard without knowing anything about the child.

AI is absolutely biased, seriously you all need to learn about these technologies before insisting you should be using them with children

Cool then even the computer agrees that one kid is annoying and shouldn’t get anything higher than a 82% on any paper submitted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that kids need to be actually learning more in school. More reading. More writing. More research.

However what I don't agree with is that parents should have any input on whether that education is properly being evaluated. I am sick and tired of parents complaining to me that I "incorrectly" graded or evaluated a student's paper or claiming that I somehow have biased approaches to my grading simply because they don't like that their child got less than an A. If you truly believe any of that to be real, you should be ecstatic for me to be using AI that will essentially hold every student to the exact same standard without knowing anything about the child.

AI is absolutely biased, seriously you all need to learn about these technologies before insisting you should be using them with children

Cool then even the computer agrees that one kid is annoying and shouldn’t get anything higher than a 82% on any paper submitted

Cool story bro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Abstinence only education doesn’t work with sex or drugs. It won’t work with AI.

Do you let your kids drink at home too?

Do you keep your head in the sand and hope they figure it out on their own?

You teach them how to navigate so they can use safely. Unless you want their peers to show them the ropes…

Teach your children how to live in the real world.

You can teach them drug and alcohol safety without having them use/drink it on a daily basis. A parent that was giving their underage child alcohol daily is not teaching good habits, they are imposing bad habits.

Are you really this dense?


Social media has demonstrated far more harm right now and you all are writing this AI is like an end of the world doom cult.


Are you talking about sex with your kids by demonstrating it?

Jesus.

Your job is to help your children survive in the world we live in. Not the one you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Abstinence only education doesn’t work with sex or drugs. It won’t work with AI.

Do you let your kids drink at home too?

Do you keep your head in the sand and hope they figure it out on their own?

You teach them how to navigate so they can use safely. Unless you want their peers to show them the ropes…

Teach your children how to live in the real world.

You can teach them drug and alcohol safety without having them use/drink it on a daily basis. A parent that was giving their underage child alcohol daily is not teaching good habits, they are imposing bad habits.

Are you really this dense?


Social media has demonstrated far more harm right now and you all are writing this AI is like an end of the world doom cult.


Are you talking about sex with your kids by demonstrating it?

Jesus.

Your job is to help your children survive in the world we live in. Not the one you want.

I mean many of us are asking for kids to have constant access to AI in school, but others are describing that as equivalent to abstinence only education.

Maybe you are perplexed because you made a false equivalency between limiting access to AI and abstinence only education.

Maybe let's focus this convo on AI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't need to learn how to use AI in elementary or middle school or even most of high school.

Don't give them access to the internet. Have them learn to read and write and do math using pen, paper and calculators in school and MCPS will achieve more than it does now.

+1

You need to wake up and understand we live in a competitive world, one in which most children will access the internet, learn a ton, and use AI effectively. You cannot live like a digital Amish and then expect to benefit from the fruits of everyone's tech expertise later on in life.

I think for ES/MS AI shouldn't be allowed, but for maybe Jrs/Srs in HS, it makes sense for them to start learning how to use AI effectively.

Agree with a PP, AI is here to stay, and in today's job market, you need to know how to use AI. This was the message that some commencement speakers at colleges tried to explain to graduates (much to their disgust, and those speakers got boo'd. I do think the speakers were tone deaf about it).

It's not just the tech sector that's pushing AI on their employees. It's happening in other industries, too.

My DC is a UMD and had one professor tell them that they can use AI but only for certain parts of the assignment. DC has also used it for other purposes, but they always check the output. UMD has its own AI tool (powered by OpenAI) that students can access. I think colleges are now seeing the writing on the wall and incorporating AI use in its curriculum.

College is a great time to learn to use AI, after you have learned fundamental writing and math skills

I kind of agree with you, but I think HS kids will definitely use AI, and so putting guardrails around it makes sense.

Maybe for home assignments but there is no reason why they need to have access to it at school. Don't allow cell phones, don't use Chromebooks, do work either pencil and paper. That's what the schools that tech bros send their kids to do.

Let's be real. The tech bros don't actually do that, and they spin it to make themselves look good. Of course, those kids have cell phones, laptops/chromebooks and tablets. If that's what you want for your kids, fine, but I want mine to function in the real world.

Yes, they do. This is one of the schools they send their kids to: https://www.waldorfpeninsula.org/explore

You can give your kids cell phones and laptops but have them go to school where they don't have access to these things and can therefore focus on learning.

These tech people don't want their kids to have access at school because they themselves have intentionally pushed to ensure their products are as distracting as possible during the school day in order to increase engagement from school age kids and increase their own profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nlA.TxAz._2Pq7SFKjc4k&smid=nytcore-android-share

One slide presentation illustrated how this could happen. If someone began a YouTube session with a query about linear equations, the platform would first offer a learning video, the presentation showed. But after that, the algorithm would recommend a Will Ferrell comedy video.

A Google spokesman said the documents were outdated. In 2022, the company released a tool that allows teachers to remove ads and recommendations on videos they assign students to watch, said the spokesman, José Castañeda. He also said that YouTube could be blocked, and that browsing on the site had been turned off by default on school Chromebooks for a decade.

But teachers and parents said that even when YouTube and other sites were blocked, students used internet proxies and other workarounds. And schools often allowed YouTube browsing so children could do research, which Google said highlighted its educational value but which made policing its use more difficult.

You think the tech people are going to send their MS/HS kids to that school as there is no way they'd be competitive in stem. Maybe for non-stem kids, sure or ES.

Bill Gates kids went here: Lots of stem and computers. https://www.lakesideschool.org

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't need to learn how to use AI in elementary or middle school or even most of high school.

Don't give them access to the internet. Have them learn to read and write and do math using pen, paper and calculators in school and MCPS will achieve more than it does now.

+1

You need to wake up and understand we live in a competitive world, one in which most children will access the internet, learn a ton, and use AI effectively. You cannot live like a digital Amish and then expect to benefit from the fruits of everyone's tech expertise later on in life.

I think for ES/MS AI shouldn't be allowed, but for maybe Jrs/Srs in HS, it makes sense for them to start learning how to use AI effectively.

Agree with a PP, AI is here to stay, and in today's job market, you need to know how to use AI. This was the message that some commencement speakers at colleges tried to explain to graduates (much to their disgust, and those speakers got boo'd. I do think the speakers were tone deaf about it).

It's not just the tech sector that's pushing AI on their employees. It's happening in other industries, too.

My DC is a UMD and had one professor tell them that they can use AI but only for certain parts of the assignment. DC has also used it for other purposes, but they always check the output. UMD has its own AI tool (powered by OpenAI) that students can access. I think colleges are now seeing the writing on the wall and incorporating AI use in its curriculum.

College is a great time to learn to use AI, after you have learned fundamental writing and math skills

I kind of agree with you, but I think HS kids will definitely use AI, and so putting guardrails around it makes sense.

Maybe for home assignments but there is no reason why they need to have access to it at school. Don't allow cell phones, don't use Chromebooks, do work either pencil and paper. That's what the schools that tech bros send their kids to do.

Let's be real. The tech bros don't actually do that, and they spin it to make themselves look good. Of course, those kids have cell phones, laptops/chromebooks and tablets. If that's what you want for your kids, fine, but I want mine to function in the real world.

Yes, they do. This is one of the schools they send their kids to: https://www.waldorfpeninsula.org/explore

You can give your kids cell phones and laptops but have them go to school where they don't have access to these things and can therefore focus on learning.

These tech people don't want their kids to have access at school because they themselves have intentionally pushed to ensure their products are as distracting as possible during the school day in order to increase engagement from school age kids and increase their own profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nlA.TxAz._2Pq7SFKjc4k&smid=nytcore-android-share

One slide presentation illustrated how this could happen. If someone began a YouTube session with a query about linear equations, the platform would first offer a learning video, the presentation showed. But after that, the algorithm would recommend a Will Ferrell comedy video.

A Google spokesman said the documents were outdated. In 2022, the company released a tool that allows teachers to remove ads and recommendations on videos they assign students to watch, said the spokesman, José Castañeda. He also said that YouTube could be blocked, and that browsing on the site had been turned off by default on school Chromebooks for a decade.

But teachers and parents said that even when YouTube and other sites were blocked, students used internet proxies and other workarounds. And schools often allowed YouTube browsing so children could do research, which Google said highlighted its educational value but which made policing its use more difficult.

You think the tech people are going to send their MS/HS kids to that school as there is no way they'd be competitive in stem. Maybe for non-stem kids, sure or ES.

Bill Gates kids went here: Lots of stem and computers. https://www.lakesideschool.org

And, here is an article saying they limited it, like many of us do, but kids got phones at 14. https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/ They didn't have ipads, but that doesn't mean they didn't have laptops, given that was his competitor. And, those kids probably had nannies with phones so its not like they are taking the school bus home, a nanny or driver is taking them to/from school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that kids need to be actually learning more in school. More reading. More writing. More research.

However what I don't agree with is that parents should have any input on whether that education is properly being evaluated. I am sick and tired of parents complaining to me that I "incorrectly" graded or evaluated a student's paper or claiming that I somehow have biased approaches to my grading simply because they don't like that their child got less than an A. If you truly believe any of that to be real, you should be ecstatic for me to be using AI that will essentially hold every student to the exact same standard without knowing anything about the child.

Except it will generate feedback leading every child to sound the same. The only way to grade writing is subjectively. - another HS teacher