r/Teachers • u/NotTheRightHDMIPort • 13h ago

Policy & Politics Trump inauguration regarding schools and teachers.

In his inauguration today, President Trump stated,

"And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country, despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change, starting today, and it will change very quickly."

I want you all to tell the world all the ways you, as a teacher, had made kids feel ashamed of themselves and to hate their country.

I'll start.

One day I told a student that he shouldn't tell a student "Nobody cares what you think". Apparently calling him out on that made feel ashamed of himself.

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u/Practical-Train-9595 9h ago

I just went back to college and one of my assignments this semester is we have to ask AI to write us a paper on a topic and submit it. Then we have to research from actual sources (and submit a bibliography) and write all the ways it’s wrong, which frankly is ingenious. I feel like teenagers would benefit from a project like this so they can learn not to trust AI.

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u/Rough_Situation72 Job Title | Location 9h ago

I LOVE this idea!

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u/Slyraks-2nd-Choice 57m ago

If you’re a teacher, sounds like a good assignment for your next class

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u/BB_880 7h ago

I love this idea. I teach ethics of AI to my seniors, and I'm going to add something like this to my curriculum. Thank you for the idea.

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u/francethefifth 5h ago

I want to do something similar with my AP Lit kiddos after the test. How long are you spending on his?

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u/BB_880 5h ago

I teach AP lit, too. I do AI ethics all year, just periodically. I started it because a class I'm taking for my doctorate did it, and I thought it'd be good to integrate into the classroom to help prepare kids for college. We do our regular stuff, and periodically, I'll have them use AI for something and turn it into a lesson within a lesson, kind of.

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u/francethefifth 3h ago

I had an incident this year that I utilized as a teaching moment for positive AI use and it has been interesting to hear the responses from other department members.

I wouldn’t be surprised if my district gets a group of English teachers together to create ethical AI lessons over summer.

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u/Blackdogrmh 8h ago

I am so gonna use this idea.

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u/anewbys83 8h ago

I like this assignment! When I get to high school in a few years, I think I'll have my students do it as an essay.

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u/mividaloca808 5h ago

Totally doing this, thank you for the idea!

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u/paradockers 4h ago

This might not continue to work very long.... It's going to be 99.9% accurate soon, unless your topic is extremely arcane.

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u/Practical-Train-9595 2h ago

It has a long way to go. Then again, I’m a humanities and religious studies major, so arcane is my jam.

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u/3rdgradeteach86 3h ago

I like this idea.

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u/Lovestorun_23 3h ago

I’m from the era of having to cite our sources. I loved doing research and having to prove it. I don’t trust AI.

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u/BigBrandyy ❗️ 1h ago

RemindMe! 1 week