AI School Report - Ok or not Ok?

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Dc came home with Her School report yesterday, she's in Year 2 (6yr old). The opening statement was long and very professional written, lots of complex language and descriptive words. DB (her uncle) was there when I was reading it and said straight away it's AI written. We put it into an online research tool and it came back as 100% generated, with no personal touches added whatsoever.

AIBU to be upset?

For the record, DNieces also came home with theirs which was very obviously personally written and what you would expect from a Primary School Report.

Ah, not marking but always lots of planning to do at the weekend. It was the school summer fair today, so I did the hour and half drive there and back, so I could help for a few hours!
Hang on! Just going to play a tune on my violin.

@twentysevendresses goodness that is crazy and insane! I'm so sorry you have to go through it. It must be absolutely mind numbing as well! I just wonder if parents would be better off with a half an hour dictated voice message or voice report or something instead. Congrats on getting through them this year. Here is to them to getting shorter and easier in the future!!!

I actually like the written reports as they are lovely to keep - I actually cried when I read my oldest school report in reception, and the teacher was so happy we liked them, when a couple of us said we cried she said ‘well that’s the aim’ 🥰🙈. We do have a lovely school. I’m sorry both parents and pupils are such an inconvenience to some…I always go above and beyond for my customers at work…part of our ethos as a small company. My only solution is maybe teachers should be paid more? I don’t know 🤷‍♀️

@greenandgreener a voice message would be great...my school are very 'backward thinking' though 🤦‍♀️ We are not even allowed to use websites like Twinkl or Grammarsaurus to get resources from! We have to 'school brand' (which means 'make our own in our own time' 😵‍💫)

Here's to retirement- I'm counting the years! 🤣

that is crazy, because if you used the resources you would have more time to support and help the students to understand the concepts!

so you returned? @Gladtobeout since the thread you started celebrating leaving the profession and job hunting? 🤔

the school you teach at is a 90 minute commute away?

my son goes to a top public school and his reports are very very evidently personalised and detailed and very helpful and 3x a year

What a waste of teacher time and resources! Quite pointless in so many ways too.

I'd rather teachers spent those hours (which if genuinely lengthy, personalised, detailed and termly must add up to dozens of hours) on teaching my child day to day.

I really hope those poor teachers aren't having to do all that writing in their own time, outside of school hours.

these teachers aren’t leaving the profession left right and centre

so i’ll take a punt that when turnover is as low as it is at my son’s school… the teaching staff are pretty satisfied with the status quo

Sorry teacher tired here…
Let me make it clearer - 45 mins each way.
Must get on now - I have 5 ISP’s to write. You know another task a teacher does in their own time… Honestly the job is endless… My bow is literally wearing thin now - I’ve had to play my violin so often today! What’s your favourite tune? I’d love to dance to it…

DD’s are quite personalised and detailed, but she’s in primary and there are 20 kids for each teacher so not the load that subject teachers have in secondary. I do enjoy them though, there is some standard stuff that I imagine is copy and pasted because it would be ridiculous to write it all out again. But there is a lot in there.

I actually wouldn’t mind bullet points against the curriculum so I know where she’s succeeding and where she’s failing so we can work on anything that needs to be improved. And a behaviour or need to know box. I don’t really need filler. Just a checklist would be great.

I remember getting the two line reports, never particularly helpful tbh.

You just get cracking on that marking 🤔

Eh!?
"The opening statement was long and very professional written, lots of complex language and descriptive words."

Teachers are professionals.

At my primary school we are definitely expected to write full-length personal statements (no statement banks, A1 or drop-down options) about each pupil in our class, approximately half a side of A4, and adhere to a high standard of written English.
You make it sound as if basic professionalism somehow marks your child's teacher out as a cheat.

perhaps the op’s experience of this particular teacher would indicate professional and complex sentences are not something to be expected from him / her

I don't mind if a teacher copies and pastes. Anyone who has been doing it for a few years must have seen it all anyway, so they should have a comments bank. What did annoy me last year was getting the report with the wrong name in the comments. No one else in the class had that name either, so it must have been badly copied from a previous year. Bet they would have marked kids down for that sort of thing!

did you raise with the teacher?

And in a state school each class is 30+ and they have the same number of classes. I’ve worked in both state and independent. Report writing in a independent, despite being more frequent, is less onerous.

No, they won’t.
The state school teacher will have the same number if classes, but each class will be 30+.

I worked in an independent with Saturday school. I had the same number of classes as I have in every state school I’ve worked in. The classes were much smaller. I thought fewer children.

That should her picked up on during proof reading. We had to proof read other teachers reports before they were signed off by SLT. I regularly had to remind people to change names. They might start off calling someone Olivia but then drop a Chloe in mid-way. It’s just because they have copied and pasted.
I probably did it myself at times.

No this is absolutely not true at all. That's like saying a surgeon who smokes is bound to be a terrible doctor. It may seem true for the first millisecond you hear it, but there's no correlation between the two.
It could very well be that the teacher is a far better one as she clearly is effective at using her time, and IT, and is therefore better at planning lessons and marking books. She is not failing her students- report writing is one small part of teaching. I actually take a lot of care with my reports and often get complimented on them- my friend/colleague does not (he uses AI even though we're not meant to!). He's just as good a teacher as I am.