The article is quite specific about ChatGPT not being useful for writing essays. It also carefully speculates about some other uses. It even insists on it being

The article is quite specific about ChatGPT not being useful for writing essays. It also carefully speculates about some other uses. It even insists on it being a very fancy form of autocompletion, so it shouldn't be surprising that it was useful in your example. And it also points out that it's bad teaching that should be concerned about it, which is also seems the case for your daughter's teacher (for perhaps a very mild example of bad teaching).