Anonymous
11/20/2025 17:34
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Colleges are bringing back blue books and in-class essays so their students have to think. Don't you want to be preparing your students for that?
And many universities are adopting AI. Yes, I want my students to be prepared for both: blue books and AI.
Google any university and take a look at its AI policy, a document that is likely evolving. Many are actually providing courses for professors so they know how it can be applied to various disciplines / courses. Whether or not I like this doesn’t matter; it’s happening. (I did this for my kids’ universities. Both have robust policies that support ethical, reasoned use of AI.)
Google surveys. The majority of college students are now using it for their coursework. (The first five sites I visited all had numbers over 85%.) Again, it doesn’t matter how I personally feel about it. It’s happening.
So I support teaching students how to use it reasonably and ethically, because the alternative is they use it anyway with no guidance.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 17:15
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who don't welcome LLM and AI will be left behind and so will your children.
Those who do will also be left behind and so will be their children. That’s the beauty of the moment.
Okay enjoy your typewriter.
I use AI daily that’s why I don’t want it near my child outside of a specific window dedicated to learning about it which is not what’s on the table.
And I don’t want my kids data to be fed to AI which it 100% will without my or their consent.
Please you are feeding your kids data to AI all day long with their location, demographics, etc.
This AI does less than what you do.
I do what I want with my data. I’m actually pretty paranoid about it but that’s not the point. FCPS for sure is doing what I don’t want it to do with my and even more so my children’s data. I have no option to opt out and I definitely don’t want more of that. I’m horrified that iPads are used as early as kindergarten. I hate that hours a day are spent in edtech apps monitoring and recording every click. I didn’t consent to this. I Didn’t consent to this data to then be passed to light speed, yet another platform linking me, my children and every click they make. Like all those apps that FCPS uses already have an account for me against my will. I want less of it not more.
Your data is used every time you do a Google search, or walk into a store with your phone, or use your credit card, or drive your car, I’ll go to a doctors appointment, or walk into a CVS, or have something delivered to your house.
You’re not consenting to all this it’s being taken from you and it has been for decades.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 17:13
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She touts “at no cost.” Reid just sold FCPS. if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
+1. OpenAI is not trustworthy. Should have signed up with Khan Academy if they wanted AI. Very poor decision making.
Khan Academy uses OpenAI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/khan-academy-and-microsoft-partner-to-expand-access-to-ai-tools/
This article mentions a partnership with Microsoft, not OpenAI. Also, Khan Academy has AI products with safety and privacy guardrails. And it’s a nonprofit.
Microsoft Copilot is OpenAI.
Getting distracted. No matter who owns, a wrong choice by FCPS.
No, you tried to distract with Microsoft saying that it was fine not knowing the technology. It’s the same technology.
It’s not the wrong choice. It’s the right direction.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 17:10
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Data and privacy issues aside, how can FCPS support chatgpt when environmental issues are still not addressed and when OpenAI refuses to disclose its emissions (likely bc the disclosure would be devastating for them from PR standpoint). Study after confirmed study tells how chatgpt use hurts environment, but Reid just chirps, “we don’t have to pay for it!!”
“…Goldman Sachs estimates a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search and the data centers to support require vast quantities of water for cooling, placing a strain on local water supplies and ecosystems. One study estimates that using ChatGPT-4o annually consumes as much water as the drinking needs of 1.2 million people annually.”
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://earth.org/environmental-impact-chatgpt/
“…Goldman Sachs estimates a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search and the data centers to support require vast quantities of water for cooling, placing a strain on local water supplies and ecosystems. One study estimates that using ChatGPT-4o annually consumes as much water as the drinking needs of 1.2 million people annually.”
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://earth.org/environmental-impact-chatgpt/
Anonymous
11/20/2025 11:33
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
By this logic I assume you are also vaping with students since they are doing it anyway?
How is using ChatGTP and vaping the same? Explain this to me like I am five.
Just use it as a prompt
Anonymous
11/20/2025 11:22
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote: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.
Colleges are bringing back blue books and in-class essays so their students have to think. Don't you want to be preparing your students for that?
Anonymous
11/20/2025 11:16
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
By this logic I assume you are also vaping with students since they are doing it anyway?
How is using ChatGTP and vaping the same? Explain this to me like I am five.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 11:06
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who don't welcome LLM and AI will be left behind and so will your children.
Those who do will also be left behind and so will be their children. That’s the beauty of the moment.
Okay enjoy your typewriter.
I use AI daily that’s why I don’t want it near my child outside of a specific window dedicated to learning about it which is not what’s on the table.
And I don’t want my kids data to be fed to AI which it 100% will without my or their consent.
Please you are feeding your kids data to AI all day long with their location, demographics, etc.
This AI does less than what you do.
I do what I want with my data. I’m actually pretty paranoid about it but that’s not the point. FCPS for sure is doing what I don’t want it to do with my and even more so my children’s data. I have no option to opt out and I definitely don’t want more of that. I’m horrified that iPads are used as early as kindergarten. I hate that hours a day are spent in edtech apps monitoring and recording every click. I didn’t consent to this. I Didn’t consent to this data to then be passed to light speed, yet another platform linking me, my children and every click they make. Like all those apps that FCPS uses already have an account for me against my will. I want less of it not more.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 11:00
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She touts “at no cost.” Reid just sold FCPS. if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
+1. OpenAI is not trustworthy. Should have signed up with Khan Academy if they wanted AI. Very poor decision making.
Khan Academy uses OpenAI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/khan-academy-and-microsoft-partner-to-expand-access-to-ai-tools/
This article mentions a partnership with Microsoft, not OpenAI. Also, Khan Academy has AI products with safety and privacy guardrails. And it’s a nonprofit.
Microsoft Copilot is OpenAI.
Getting distracted. No matter who owns, a wrong choice by FCPS.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 10:47
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who don't welcome LLM and AI will be left behind and so will your children.
Those who do will also be left behind and so will be their children. That’s the beauty of the moment.
Okay enjoy your typewriter.
I use AI daily that’s why I don’t want it near my child outside of a specific window dedicated to learning about it which is not what’s on the table.
And I don’t want my kids data to be fed to AI which it 100% will without my or their consent.
Please you are feeding your kids data to AI all day long with their location, demographics, etc.
This AI does less than what you do.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 10:46
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She touts “at no cost.” Reid just sold FCPS. if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
+1. OpenAI is not trustworthy. Should have signed up with Khan Academy if they wanted AI. Very poor decision making.
Khan Academy uses OpenAI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/khan-academy-and-microsoft-partner-to-expand-access-to-ai-tools/
This article mentions a partnership with Microsoft, not OpenAI. Also, Khan Academy has AI products with safety and privacy guardrails. And it’s a nonprofit.
Microsoft Copilot is OpenAI.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 10:42
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who don't welcome LLM and AI will be left behind and so will your children.
Those who do will also be left behind and so will be their children. That’s the beauty of the moment.
Okay enjoy your typewriter.
I use AI daily that’s why I don’t want it near my child outside of a specific window dedicated to learning about it which is not what’s on the table.
And I don’t want my kids data to be fed to AI which it 100% will without my or their consent.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 10:22
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She touts “at no cost.” Reid just sold FCPS. if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
+1. OpenAI is not trustworthy. Should have signed up with Khan Academy if they wanted AI. Very poor decision making.
Khan Academy uses OpenAI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/khan-academy-and-microsoft-partner-to-expand-access-to-ai-tools/
This article mentions a partnership with Microsoft, not OpenAI. Also, Khan Academy has AI products with safety and privacy guardrails. And it’s a nonprofit.
Agree. Khan is so far different from OpenAI. And no, Khan does not use ChatGPT.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 10:14
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:She touts “at no cost.” Reid just sold FCPS. if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
+1. OpenAI is not trustworthy. Should have signed up with Khan Academy if they wanted AI. Very poor decision making.
Khan Academy uses OpenAI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/khan-academy-and-microsoft-partner-to-expand-access-to-ai-tools/
This article mentions a partnership with Microsoft, not OpenAI. Also, Khan Academy has AI products with safety and privacy guardrails. And it’s a nonprofit.
Anonymous
11/20/2025 09:26
Subject: Re:Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
That’s the thing- FCPS still enough off its old reputation as a strong school district that it could have gotten actual consideration if was going to sell its teachers and students to be test subjects and not the “free until 2027,” which is nothing. Companies like OpenAI have investment $ to support schools with donations and other funding- there is no golden goose to get in this scenario and no magic beans, but FCPS all excited they sold their teachers and students to get absolutely nothing.