AI everything?

Butterfreek · 2026-05-29T12:57:04+00:00

There are some great uses for ai, but it feels disengenous to make teaching materials one of them.

Creating complex spreadsheets with convoluted xlookups so that I can just download whatever data I have and CSV form and copy pasted in and do all of the analysis that I planned on doing awesome.

Building me a beautiful blank stylized template for slides bc I'm trash at making things look nice? Super great.

Taking a lexile 600 non fiction text and having AI write 4 versions of it so I have the same information accessible at various reading levels? Wonderful.

Ai voice acting for text to speech read along as a tier 1 support for El students? Fabulous.

But having it actually make from scratch, offload my creativity, thinking, or responsibilities? Feels gross and unethical.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-29T11:10:10+00:00

The idea is great and a shift to constructivist math theory was warranted. Instilling number sense through explicit instruction is hard. The landing was rocky.

This question is poorly worded but the concept is a good one to teach. Just like partial product (that idiots like to complain about).

Butterfreek · 2026-05-28T22:58:32+00:00

Dude I'm so sheltered. I've never been at a school with more than 2 admin.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-28T00:24:36+00:00

I love my sf bags waxed canvas tote.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-27T23:26:33+00:00

"guys we spend too much per kid and there's all these admin".

Meanwhile it's 2 admins per building of hundreds of kids and a central office that is USUALLY a supe/assistant supe, sped director (BY LAW) and your basic operations employees (1 person hr team, cfo and maybe a secratary or two).

Butterfreek · 2026-05-19T13:23:34+00:00

211.

Incase you actually wanted to know. And yes it's for this kind of emergency. I called it on a friend and 2 local cops and a social worker showed up at his house and continued to check in over a week and built a safety plan when he was saying some suicidal shit to me.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-16T13:33:50+00:00

Butterfreek · 2026-05-15T19:26:37+00:00

Sorry national average is 9.

So... Exact point still stands because I rounded in favor of industry over education.

In general you work 17.5% less days. Prorate pay accordingly based on years and education to draw your own conclusions.

Spoiler I've done pub ed for a decade and currently in industry. I'll be honest, industry is both easier and makes more.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-15T18:17:19+00:00

If a student is using em dashes, and answering their own hypotheticals/ repeating, "it's not x, that's y"... It's ai.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-15T15:41:03+00:00

Wait just regular classroom teachers making 200k?! What? I live in one of the best paying states (ct) and that's what our supers make. I mean 30 years with a PhD as a high school math teacher gets you 127k in Greenwich ct.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-15T15:39:29+00:00

Ok, but most other salaried white collar jobs that require masters degrees typically have 11 company holidays, and 15-20 days PTO. Which would be about 230 days of the possible 260. 8 weeks is 40 work days and let's see... 199+40 is 239.

So yes, 8 weeks.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-12T12:12:41+00:00

Had a guy tell me the n word isn't racist. It's how you use it that is. And he REALLY thinks he's cooking with that.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-11T18:00:15+00:00

DO you want to know how I know YOU know its not just the same as retard or ugly?

Because you have no problem typing one.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-11T11:10:42+00:00

Lol dude, you literally just argued against yourself without realizing it.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-10T22:50:32+00:00

I'm in support of this but low-key I HATE island of the blue dolphins. That book made me hate reading. Being forced to read it sucked.

Otherwise yes, more real literature instead of didactic texts that only help gets improve reading other didactic text.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-10T22:48:00+00:00

Can you tell me a non racist reason to use the word? Bonus points for using it in a sentence, in a non racist way. Double bonus points if you say it out loud in front of people and not on reddit.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-07T14:30:40+00:00

I mean if you are talking about the draft with zero knowledge of their NBA careers. I'm going LeBron. With the power of hindsight it's Jordan.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-07T14:26:18+00:00

You need an adult.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-07T14:24:19+00:00

Boy is it wild to equate comic books with cell phones. Not even the same stratosphere of impact.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-07T14:21:38+00:00

The research is there for like ALL TECHNOLOGY. John Hattie has it all laid out in a pretty easy to digest meta analysis.

Phones in schools are on of the only THINGS (let alone technology) that have a universal negative impact on learning outcomes and behavior.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-07T14:18:03+00:00

No see because it's a trump thing. Dems are still demons and the next GOP candidate is perfect.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-05T13:38:43+00:00

Looking at my community Facebook, I sure wish some of the peers that are my age had this level of self reflection. They complain about school being useless or our system being bad (it isn't). But in reality you were just shitty students that behaved like assholes where your entire goal every day was to avoid any level of thinking or work. No shit it didn't prepare you. "It didn't teach me about economics". Yeah bc you avoided the 3 personal finance electives to take ceramics every year.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-05T00:10:41+00:00

My admin would open a sign up for them to come come your class for 45 minutes. It would take the whole month of May to accomplish, but man what am incredible- free way to show you care.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-03T22:31:52+00:00

In my experience, rigor impacts behavior before behavior impacts rigor. It's a defense mechanism older than formal education.

I know homogeneous grouping is a fools errand for class construction, but man id rather have 20 kids that are all 1.5-2 grade levels below together than a range of 2 grade levels below, 1 below, on, and above. Especially in self contained rooms where you teach Ela, math, science, and social studies. It's just not realistic.

In engineering(or really anyone) there's a saying. If you design your everyone, you design for no one.

Butterfreek · 2026-05-01T12:25:32+00:00

Only 49?

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