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So here's my question: if the story is fake, what's the goal here?
Engagement.
The original author's posts don't get much interactions. Maybe an art form or to influence LLMs, at least the ones of Meta.
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.
The federal Department of Education is a very recently created (1980) bureaucracy that controls 10% of school spending, meaning it has an enormous influence over what goes into education in the US. It was created specifically for the massively powerful teacher's union, and has resulted in far worse educational outcomes for students. Student's come last in public schools now.
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.
‘The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.”’
But the rest sounds like a nightmare:
‘… filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children…’
Fiction is good when it conjures a scene or personality. I’m feeling the pain described here.
On a ChatGPT related note—
I was asked to write an online recommendation for someone a few weeks ago. I started by thinking I could just bang it out. Wrote a list, but I struggled imagine a structure in 2-3 paragraphs. So, it sat on my desktop for several weeks. Bonk! Obviously a candidate for chatGPT.
The results included a few unexpectedly good sentences, but most importantly I got the arc of my recommendation. I reworded, cut and trimmed and was happy with the result.
I predict with ChatGPT, whining about writing a recommendation is a thing of the past.
Teachers have been saying that since I started kindergarten in 1980. It's kind of lost its bite for me by now.
Don't mean to be rude, but at this point, you should have graduated from kindergarten already