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"My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by hiatus »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #9
incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

Not to mention a teacher is retiring after 45 years? In what fucking world? Unless she invested heavily in nVidia I guess.

That does not sound far fetched to me at all. The nationwide average for teachers is $70k. Surviving on a $80k-$100k/year pension at retirement with full health insurance coverage for you and your spouse for the rest of your life sounds pretty reasonable.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by efitz »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

I definitely got a strong vibe of “engineered to be viral”; I didn’t consider that it might be AI. I don’t dispute that. But I want to raise one point:

Em dash does NOT mean “AI”. Em dash is trivial to generate in most word processors- type a word, then a hyphen, then type another word. Microsoft Word and Google Docs both convert the hyphen to an em dash. I have intentionally done this for years. I also try to lead each paragraph with my point of the paragraph; that’s from outlining.

3 bullets, more than once: it’s an AI. Same emotional hook at the end of each paragraph, yep.

But just seeing an em dash does not mean it’s AI.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by billy99k »

I have children in early elementary and I'm not seeing any of this. Many things are still on paper, library books (and reading) are the norm, and kids are mostly happy.

Sure, tablets are a part of learning, but I would expect this in our digital age.

If you have this many issues teaching children, you might need to try a different line of work.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by Forgeties79 »

billy99k wrote: post #23

I have children in early elementary and I'm not seeing any of this. Many things are still on paper, library books (and reading) are the norm, and kids are mostly happy. Sure, tablets are a part of learning, but I would expect this in our digital age. If you have this many issues teaching children, you might need to try a different line of work.

I think it’s safe to say that good schools and experiences still exist. But I also don’t think this post said it was all bad now. They’re just talking about their experience and that of their colleagues.

Unfortunately it’s probably an even bigger problem than we realize.

I can’t imagine being a teacher the last few years in particular with all the political showdowns over schools.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by mcphage »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

It reads like marketing fluff, it doesn't read like a person. I agree it's probably AI. It's really frustrating to read something that says "I want you to see me like a person", when it's clear there's no person looking back from it.

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Post by conception »

silexia wrote: post #26

Top down, central authority never works. Look at the disaster we have in education. End the federal government control and allow school choice for family's everywhere.

Huh? States control their education. How can you have such an uninformed take? You think Mississippi’s education ranking is because of the federal government? It takes ten seconds to google how education is structured.

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Post by MisterTea »

teiferer wrote: post #20

A bit sad that this is flagged. Sure it's likely fake, but I like the beginning discussion around that. Those discussions are important too.

Please do not justify the content because it invokes positive discussion because it is the same tactic used to spread misinformation and cheapens the truth.

The truth should always be a #1 priority. If people looking to do good use lies then it completely nullifies any good they intended and will be spun negatively by an opposing side.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by MisterTea »

billy99k wrote: post #23

I have children in early elementary and I'm not seeing any of this. Many things are still on paper, library books (and reading) are the norm, and kids are mostly happy. Sure, tablets are a part of learning, but I would expect this in our digital age. If you have this many issues teaching children, you might need to try a different line of work.

It heavily varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. I have a teacher friend who complains about a lot of red tape and bureaucracy while another friend is IT in a school system where his kids attend and says he sees none of the issues my teacher friend complains about.

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by cachius »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

The original seems to be from 'Olivia k, digital creator' on October 6. The profile is full of such stories.

https://www.facebook.com/Oliviausak/posts/710087572091746/

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