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You're proposing teachers spend like 5x as much time grading.
It's about as effective as saying city bus drivers should go to everyone's exact pickup and destination instead of having regular stops. Sure, it's possible, but would take fucking forever
Comment by Because_Bot_Fed at 02/12/2024 at 04:17 UTC
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We're trying to fix two problems:
1. Students using AI instead of doing the work themselves
2. Students "get away with" #1 because current curriculum and testing do an awful job of actually demonstrating true understanding and ability to apply understanding.
I see this as a problem that needs solving, not a problem to encounter roadblocks to and throw up our hands and admit defeat and say it's too hard or not possible.
You put forward a made up number for how many orders of magnitude more work teachers would have to do. I say "This is a problem we should find a solution to" rather than "This is a problem that means we can't achieve our original objective".
Like, for instance, what if we did something *wild* like ensuring the absurd tuitions students paid went towards properly paying teachers, and support staff, and used that as a catalyst to attract more teachers and support staff, both long-term and short-term?
Then students get an education that's better aligned with the amount of money they're investing in their education. Teachers get properly compensated, while also reducing the amount of work they have to do because it's better spread out between many more teachers.
For government funded primary education this just means properly funding schools and paying those teachers appropriately and scaling up staffing appropriately. Schools are woefully underfunded and tons of teachers leave the teaching space because the pay is shit and the working conditions suck.
But no, you're right, nothing should ever change or improve because there's an issue in-between A and B and we should just throw our hands up and say it's impossible. :)