"Copy and pasting AI answers is harder than teaching", reports AI-dependent teacher

Since 2023, the rise of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude has fundamentally reshaped vast areas of society, including the education industry and schools more specifically. Schools have responded in varied ways, with some outright banning their use, others fully embracing them, and most landing somewhere in the middle.

At our College, for example, AI use is primarily at the discretion of individual teachers, with the IT department providing a Gemini subscription for every school account. One Senior Years English teacher who heavily incorporates AI into her lesson plans, using it to generate images, worksheets, videos, learning content, and test feedback, has pushed back against the criticism levelled at her methods.

“The joy of the English language is putting it into a chatbot and uploading the answer to Google Classroom.”

When some students described the content as “AI slop”, she responded that “it takes as much time to wrangle [my students] as it does to wrangle ChatGPT.” Her most controversial quote, however, came when she said, “Copying and pasting AI answers is harder than teaching.”

Despite widespread condemnation from peers, she stands by her comments, describing her job role on LinkedIn as “Prompt Engineer/Teenage Babysitter.”

The teacher strongly opposes students using AI to complete their own work, saying that “it reduces critical thinking. Just because I use AI doesn’t mean they should. What do they think I am, a role model?”