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[quote=Anonymous]I used to write 64 comments five times per school year (fall and winter progress reports and report cards for each trimester). If I spent an average of just ten minutes writing and revising each comment, comments took me between 10 and 11 hours. However, I also had to spend time completing grading before these reports could be written. In the end, I could not communicate much that was meaningful either, as admin required that we meet in advance with families if there was any bad news to share in the report cards. (This also placed additional time stress on me as I approached progress reports and the end of each marking period.)

If you'd like teachers to be able to plan interesting lessons and to be available to give timely feedback to students, writing comments on report cards works against that goal. Teachers will also do whatever they can to complete end-of-term reporting within a reasonable length of time. When I wrote five-sentence paragraphs for each student, three of those sentences were the same or nearly the same for each student--a template of sorts. Then I had some slight variations within my other two sentences that helped me to note homework habits, class participation, and assessment scores. I completely understand why teachers would use AI now that it is an available tool. It is not ideal, but little about communication between home and school is ideal.

Last, do not assume that AI detectors are infallible. They are likely to over-identify writing with em dashes as AI. As well, more formal writing styles are likely to be flagged as AI: GPTZero famously tagged the US Constitution as likely to have been written by AI. [/quote]

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