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So my daughter got sent home with some math questions. Thought they looked a bit dry but thought nothing further of it. I checked the answers for her which were

So my daughter got sent home with some math questions. Thought they looked a bit dry but thought nothing further of it. I checked the answers for her which were all ok. Couple of days later she comes home and tells me I was wrong about some of them which I know I was not. Apparently they self marked them as the teacher read the answers out. Decided to phone in and ask about the marking scheme which I was told I was wrong too and basically I should have done better at GCSE mathematics. I relayed my mathematical credentials and immediately the tone changed. The discussion indicated that they’d generated the questions with CoPilot and then fed that back into CoPilot and generated the answer sheet which had two incorrect answers on it. The teacher and department head in question defended their position until I threatened to feed them to the examination board and leadership team. The following of the tech was almost zealot level religious thinking which is not something I want to see in education. I check all homework now carefully and there have been other issues since.

Avicebron 1y ago
Great, and now you too are bagging your own groceries, mission accomplished.
- DavidPiper 1y ago
  It seems a little disingenuous to equate the importance of bagging groceries and supporting your child's education when judging how much time and attention each deserves.
  - zamadatix 1y ago
    I think the meaning was more "and now there is yet another thing the education system was better suited to do the parent now needs to do instead" and less "your child's education is worth grocery bags".
    - DavidPiper 1y ago
      Oh! Yes that's a completely different read, and one whose sentiment I very much agree with.
adavid17 1y ago
That is crazy. Curious - are you planning on raising to the board, administrators, etc? It's probably impacting other students (who don't have a parent checking their work), and teachers of other subjects in the school may be doing the same thing
- crinkly 1y ago
  I caused enough stink for them to be looking over their shoulder.
  - freilanzer 1y ago
    But now you seem to be checking all of the homework, so you should still do it. OT: what are your math credentials?

Avicebron 1y ago

Great, and now you too are bagging your own groceries, mission accomplished.

DavidPiper 1y ago
It seems a little disingenuous to equate the importance of bagging groceries and supporting your child's education when judging how much time and attention each deserves.
- zamadatix 1y ago
  I think the meaning was more "and now there is yet another thing the education system was better suited to do the parent now needs to do instead" and less "your child's education is worth grocery bags".
  - DavidPiper 1y ago
    Oh! Yes that's a completely different read, and one whose sentiment I very much agree with.

adavid17 1y ago

That is crazy. Curious - are you planning on raising to the board, administrators, etc? It's probably impacting other students (who don't have a parent checking their work), and teachers of other subjects in the school may be doing the same thing

crinkly 1y ago
I caused enough stink for them to be looking over their shoulder.
- freilanzer 1y ago
  But now you seem to be checking all of the homework, so you should still do it. OT: what are your math credentials?