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My dc goes to school and uses ChatGPT for everything and I’m thinking the education system needs a good shake up to prevent becoming almost useless, aibu

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Pineapplespongebob · 25/01/2026 14:03

They’re in secondary school and their school isn’t the best. Every day they get homework and do it on ChatGPT. They and the rest of their class have taken to using gpt in class on their laptops wherever they can. I am wondering what’s the point of education system as it stands. It’s a shame we can’t look to improve the whole situation, like, learning about a volcano is all well and good but it’s easy enough to look it up now. And if I’m stuck personally on a subject I will too.

eventually AI will get good enough to do things we mock it for now. Shouldn’t we be hearing more about education changing to suit dc in the future? Why can’t we take a step back from academics and give more life skills now. Even things like learning how to cook cheaper healthy meals would probably suit more people in my dc school than the ins and outs of a volcano and possibly reduce the strain on the nhs when a large majority of my dc class seem to survive on fast food rn.

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Letsgoforawalkbythesea · 25/01/2026 14:11

Our school has been taken over by it. It plans lessons, it writes emails, it arranges PSHE. I keep thinking in ten years we will have forgotten how to speak to one another normally.

Needlenardlenoo · 25/01/2026 14:10

The school sounds very poor. That's separate to issues posed by AI.

CarefullyCuratedFurniture · 25/01/2026 14:10

Why don't you (and other parents) teach your kids life skills,and let schools focus on academics?

Fearfulsaints · 25/01/2026 14:10

The school i work st has flipped learning really so homework is research and any written work is done in class with no laptop access.

I think that adjustments will need to be made to education though.

ItsPronouncedThroatwobblerMangrove · 25/01/2026 14:09

Chat GPT isn’t academic. It might give you facts (though of course the accuracy of AI search results is very patchy) but it doesn’t teach you how to think. It doesn’t teach you to be critical of the sources it expounds, or how to evaluate their legitimacy. It doesn’t give a grounding in a subject which would allow understanding and analysis which could be applied to other questions and problems in the field. In short, it is not at all like human intelligence.

It might, though, have a use for people who want to look up eg how to eat a balanced diet, or open a bank account, or how compound interest works. Those are the sort of life skills you’re asking about, but which could, ironically given your question, be easily answered by AI. Or a parent?

arethereanyleftatall · 25/01/2026 14:07

this isn’t my experience at all and I have 2 children in secondary. Neither use chat gpt - homework is handwritten.
and - I’ve taught them to cook.
maybe it varies from school to school, but I’ve been impressed with the level of work they have to do.

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