A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision. Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience.

Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.

I know it was a rough transition for my nephew, though, and I don't know that I would have handled it very well either. I'm not sure what would be a better option, though, given how much of a disservice such easy access to a mental crutch is.

> Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.

You mean, it's the only way they can prevent parents from doing anything from throwing a fit about disadvantaging their "disabled, but still very intelligent kid" (that they can't convince to put in any amount of effort) to suing the school outright.

You see, parents want kids to be great, or failures, based on their ego (which can go both ways. Some parents want their kids to be failures, and not a threat to their feelings, some parents want their kids to be the second coming (without any kind of effort on their or the kid's part), and 1/10 just want to know how they can help their kid. One BIG hint I'd give any new teacher is to not comment on a kid's performance to parents before knowing which kind of parents they are, and to help the kid by hiding failure or success to the parents of the 1st or 2nd group)