‘She genuinely does not think for herself anymore, and she has a young daughter who is being raised on ChatGPT’s advice’: Elementary school teacher realizes that principal relies entirely on ChatGPT for education

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Aug 30, 2026 1:45 PM EDT

Oh no! If it's the consequences of our own actions! Or maybe it's the consequences of profoundly life-altering technological revolutions.

We all know it: screens are making our attention spans shorter and making us dumber in general. Given the chance, our brains prefer putting in less effort into almost anything. And that's the main issue: We're now being given the chance, so it will be incredibly hard to resist, as we are 'biologically wired' to prefer saving energy resources.

ChatGPT and all AIs really are creeping up on our education systems, our health systems, our marketing strategies, our designs, our films, our anything. We can't stop AI; after all, it is a wonderful invention created by humans, but after all this that's happening, I think we should fight really hard to 'put it in its place'.

Handmade and human-thought things are now becoming a luxury; human contact is also becoming one; having a long attention span is becoming one, and all those things will soon be markers of discipline and excellence; but it would be beautiful if literacy, ideas, and attention were not only for the chosen few, and we collectively found a way to protect everyone (especially children) from the dependence AI creates.

Plus, we all have to remember something: AIs are condescending, and sometimes they invent facts or hallucinate; we cannot fully rely on them yet.

Haven't all great ideas come from creative human minds? Is that time completely over?

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  • ai usage in elementary schools is becoming dystopian.

    i'm 21 and i work at an elementary school. as of right now, chatgpt is running the school. the principal pulled me aside to tell me i had a course i needed to take for my new
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  • position, but that chatgpt could help me. my vice principal pretty much only speaks to chatgpt and is very well on the road to ai psychosis. she uses it for everything. she genuinely
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  • does not think for herself anymore, and she has a young daughter who is being raised on chatgpt's advice.
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  • in my classroom, the teachers use ai to write all the emails to parents, newsletters, etc. they use it to plan activities because they genuinely cannot do it themselves.
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  • during assemblies, they play fully ai generated music videos for the kids. just straight slop. i look around and see 300 kids watching emotionless pointless garbage and it makes my stomach drop.
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  • i worry so much about the younger generation, since growing up i have witnessed such a large technological boom. we have no idea what effects this has on them.
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  • do any parents/teachers share similar concerns?
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  • multivitams the ai music videos and etc make me sick to my stomach too, especially as an arts educator.
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  • johntwoods All good things, as they say, must come to an end. I guess we're just at that turning point from decent times to bad times.
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  • curiousniffler I am at a HS and one of my coworkers told me she was using Al to create all her slides for a new class. I literally can't express how sad I am that even teachers and admin are obsessed with Al.
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  • Sometimes I think most generations have had to deal with new technological advances they didn’t understand, and that sometimes they resisted them; and maybe that’s what’s happening to us with AI. 

    We don’t understand it; we might think it’s atrocious, but in the end, it’s just going to be a new tool that transforms people’s lives, and new inventions and ways of living and creating will come out of it (good and bad).

    I suppose electricity also had bad press, and recorded music, and so many technological advances that we’re now accustomed to; maybe this is just one of them.

    It will slowly but gradually change the world we live in; it will produce new forms of intimacy and relationships, new forms of labor, and the world will keep spinning.

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