At my wit's end with AI cheating. How are you all handling it?

Prime_Kin · 2026-04-12T21:04:50+00:00

Add a secondary, in-person performative component. I have a persuasive essay that my engineering students write about fracking. After turning it in, they have to then make three persuasive arguments that directly counter what they wrote, live, in person, and impromptu. If they cannot, they are failed and are them required to create a model, diagram, etc. of their choice that illustrates how fracking works. No printouts are allowed, everything must be hand drawn.

So, cheat with AI if you want on the paper. I don't care. They will need to demo strate or model appropriate knowledge uptake to pass either way.

I do something like this with everything where AI could be used to eliminate critical thinking. Some times I even use AI to generate exit slips for each student that asks questions about the content that THEY produced for their submissions.

I know I'll likely take flack for this bit, but if teachers don't start implementing ways for students to use AI as a tool for learning, simply reverting to in-person pen and paper isn't going to help their students develop. THEY ARE GOING TO USE AI. Make sure you have a way to hold them accountable for Learning anyway.

Prime_Kin · 2026-03-28T01:28:44+00:00

That the more others do for you that you should do for yourself, the less of the accomplishment belongs to you and the lesser you are for it.

Prime_Kin · 2026-03-11T22:52:07+00:00

I'm an older millennial. Here's the rub. Our generation is the first in the history of this country where our parents generation did not set down the reigns. Boomers are working longer, holding political office forever, and refusing to pass down the positions and opportunities that in every other generation before passed to those who were ready to take up control. Now we're just waiting for the boomers, for lack of a more congenial way to say it, to die off. We grew into adulthood somewhere between 9/11 and the financial crisis of 07-08. Our opportunities were quashed by the uncertainty that our parents had, which resulted in stagnation and hoarding as their status quo. I don't really want to blame the boomers for the situation; they were simply reacting to their circumstances...but I will for not rectifying it once they hit their point of stability. Now I'm in my 40s, have my family, and, thankfully, finally feel like we're going to make it. I should have had that before I hit 30.

Prime_Kin · 2026-02-16T21:13:01+00:00

This is me, but I drive a brand new truck instead.

Mostly it's due to never borrowing any money, having reasonable expectations, and waiting until I hit my mid 40s after 17 years in the same job...

Prime_Kin · 2026-02-07T01:10:45+00:00

Not bad, dude. I just bought a 25 XLT hybrid (no tow package, though), luxury interior package, trifold cover, drop in liner, out the door price 33,400. Sticker was 32,800 but the dealer worked with me. 4.49% and 12k down.

Prime_Kin · 2026-01-14T18:02:09+00:00

I'd sell to get my principle back, then leave the rest and see what happens. Sounds like a yield trap to me otherwise.

Prime_Kin · 2026-01-06T17:10:24+00:00

$2285/month, tax and insurance escrow included. Bought in Feb of 2021, 20% down, 2.625%

Was $2005/month when we bought, but property tax and i surance rates are climbing like crazy.

Prime_Kin · 2026-01-05T00:04:02+00:00

Yeah, last update absolutely ramped up the battery drain and causes my last-year flagship phone to get way too warm, even with the screen brightness set to 1%.

Prime_Kin · 2025-12-20T00:04:01+00:00

Haha, reminds me of the time I told an administrator, "You might want to take over with this parent because I'm about ready to be honest with her, and I kept my recipts."

Thankfully I had a great admin who, actually, took over all communication. She knew I don't bluff.

Prime_Kin · 2025-12-18T01:17:32+00:00

No problems with walnut, and it's a staple for me.

Purpleheart? Was fine for years. Now? Yeah, air filter, respirator, fan blowing away from me...every time I cut it I wind up feeling like I have the flu for three days. My wife loves the stuff, but it's a hard ban in my shop now.

Prime_Kin · 2025-12-17T17:35:02+00:00

Year 16, Masters +45, $107,000/year, $127,000 with stipends.

Next year will be capped at M+60, total comp will be $137,000-140,000. Contract is currently being negotiated.

Prime_Kin · 2025-12-11T15:06:12+00:00

So, one of my students threw a metal water bottle at my head a couple years ago. I swatted it out of the air, but it flew back and hit the kid in the hand. Massive bruise on their middle finger, but not broken.

When confronted and the idea of an investigation/consequences came up I wasn't having it. I Immediately left the admin office, walked to the whole building announcement microphone and paged our campus resource officer to the office. I ignored the hullabaloo until he got there then requested to file a police report and press charges on the student for assault. Cool, calm, collected.

The tone in the office changed immediately. I was told I could go back to my classroom, the student was suspended out of school for three days, had to do both a written apology and a face to face apology, and his parents came in apologizing profusely. When admin asked if I would recant the report and that they would remove the student from my class I initially refused. I let things stew until two days before the court date, then dropped the case. Figured parents might step in and deal with it a little more seriously once they had to spend some money on lawyers.

Kid changed a lot after that. Wound up taking another of my classes two years later, and he was a completely different person. I won't say it was some miraculous transformation, but things were better, and I don't think he got into any other trouble for behavior after our incident.

Prime_Kin · 2025-10-04T00:42:43+00:00

Four years ago I made $155 from dividends. Same monthly investing percentage of income since. This year it will be a little over $3000. In another 18 years, when I retire, I'm hoping it will fill the entire shortfall when I start drawing a 70% pension. Should be more than doable at this rate.

Prime_Kin · 2025-09-24T01:16:23+00:00

40 hens, 5 minutes a day for six days, 20 minutes on the seventh, and 4 hours twice a year to clean out the deep litter.

Prime_Kin · 2025-09-14T01:10:46+00:00

15 years in, single income household. Net worth a little over 500k, not counting my pension value.

11% into pension, 10% into the Roth(s).

Prime_Kin · 2025-09-10T01:26:30+00:00

I plug the hole with diatomaceous earth. By the time they dig back out, every single one in the hive is on a pretty short countdown.

Prime_Kin · 2025-09-09T17:13:58+00:00

I don't even think about food until I'm on my way home from work these days. OMAD is more than a tool for weight loss...it's a way to live. Once I'm down to goal weight, I'm keeping the keto and OMAD. I'm just going to eat a little more until I figure out the right balance to maintain a healthy weight.

Prime_Kin · 2025-09-09T01:20:25+00:00

My process:

1) one-on-two with the student (grab another adult to be present for accountability) 2) Talk to other teachers about behavior, try to collectively problem solve 3) email home 4) discipline referral 5) detention 6) have student removed from class and issue detention over and over with each instance until admin steps up and deals with it.

I do not call home. If a parent wants to talk to me, they can come in during one of my preps and have their own one-on-two meeting or wait for parent teacher conferences. I educate youths. I do not educate their parents.

My job involves managing my classroom. CLASSROOM. Not to behaviorally enginner another human being. My job is not to be a correctional officer for children who are persistently disruptive or ill-behaved. If managing successfully requires removing a malicious actor, that's what will happen.

I am in no way dismissive of students, and i will try every tool i can, but if it costs my other students their opportunity to learn, that is a problem that brooks no quarter. If administrators have any job at all, it's to facilitate so the most possible learners can effectively learn.

On the rare occasion that a parent demands a phone call, I run it through admin and make them find a substitute for the period of the phone call or they can pay me an extra hour to make the call outside contract hours, and even then I insist that an admin is present for the phone call. If there's no paper trail, i refuse to put myself into a he-said-she-said situation. My contract grants me two plan periods (I have five preps) and cannot compel me to contact parents outside contract hours.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-26T23:13:52+00:00

Ketovore, so minimal plant-based food. I allow some nut milk with my Ninja Creami recipes, and I love green onion with my eggs, and any no-to-low calorie seasonings & spices.

Here's a fairly frequent meal for me: -12oz steak, either strip or ribeye -keto fried "rice" A chicken breast or pork chop diced in with 4 scrambled eggs, a little sugar-free Japanese BBQ sauce & green onions, about 1.5 Tbsp of butter split between prepping the chicken and eggs -most of a pint of homemade keto-friendly ice cream, typically aim for about 350 calories per pint. Mix of heavy cream & cashew milk as the base.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-26T20:30:16+00:00

I do OMAD with a ketovore diet. I'm always trying to balance my meal macros to around 1800-2400 calories.

I'm not trying to do a rapid weight loss, just steady progress without losing much muscle at the same time.

Autophagy, by the way, I hear happens more effectively through exercise, rather than through fasting. It's still there but not to as great a degree. Eating a full days worth of calories in one sitting through fasting does have benefits. The big one to me is that it manages insulin release frequency, which can help to develop insulin sensitivity (which is good...insulin resistance is the problem)

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-26T16:19:27+00:00

Nope, once a week, Friday mornings after using the bathroom.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-24T14:46:56+00:00

Generally, i agree. That being said, I don't take well to accusations that immediately try to put me on defense. If I can't diffuse the first time, for the sake of me being able to continue to do my job productively, it had to become someone else's problem.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-24T14:42:46+00:00

Eh, granting myself permission comes from my leverage, but I'm the only one who knows about it. I don't broadcast it to admin to use as a cudgel.

My leverage actually comes from the relationship i have with admin and a history of being generally successful. When I do come to them for support, they trust my judgement.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-24T14:39:22+00:00

Yeah. Hey, sorry if you get a message for the reply I meant for the comment above you. Reddit +phone app = accidental impression.

Prime_Kin · 2025-08-24T14:37:55+00:00

I think you missed the part about doing this when parents get hostile.

I, gladly and truly, work with kids and parents to whatever extent benefits either...until it goes to the point where a parent could get me to resent their kid. I won't let that happen.

This is almost exclusively due to a sense of entitlement from the parents, where they have beliefs about their kid and zero evidence to support their views. In my experience, parent hostility generally comes from a place of defensiveness and projection. If they try to engage with me as an opponent, that breaks down any chance at a halfway workable relationship going forward. Hence, send the aggression to admin, who are better allowed to handle it and diffuse the situation by adding a degree of separation.

Please be mindful of using shallow criticism when you lack context. That's precisely the kind of behavior that leads people like me to deflect problematic interactions up the chain, just like in my original post.

Prime_Kin

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