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.
The correct policy decision for admin is to drop comments as being viewed as required and to communicate to parents
Expecting overwhelmed teachers to write paragraph essays fpr each kid is not great = maybe by exception for very good, very bad, or surprising trajectory but should not be the norm
Using GPT is WRONG and cheapens the exercise.
I couldn't disagree more! "Sympathy" is hardly required. Public school teachers have 300+ students in MS and HS, and I received sentences or fragments of sentences for DC. When you pay $50k for teachers who have a fraction of that student count, dropping comments entirely is ridiculous. The article states, "I found it really helpful because you’re writing over 50 student comments." At $50k tuition, they need AI to write comments for 50 students?!?! It's outrageous, and parents certainly deserve a paragraph at report card time to better understand/gauge their DC's performance and progress.