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I had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious
I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
![Dear [TEACHER],
I want to make sure we're on the same page for the rest of the year, because I was surprised and disappointed to hear that you uploaded student projects to ChatGPT.
We have always found [SCHOOL] to be a place that encourages students to express themselves creatively, to be responsible and aware of how their actions affect others, and to be intellectually honest – doing their own work, rather than copying from others.
I know ChatGPT has been heavily marketed as an educational tool, but everything about it is the opposite of those values. AI tools are built by training models on stolen work. They have huge and terrible environmental costs, because their data centers generate enormous amounts of pollution and are cooled with drinking water. They're also incredibly dangerous: tools like ChatGPT have taught children how to start fires and even encouraged them to commit suicide.
And in a classroom setting, it teaches students that a machine can express their ideas better than they can. I told [ CHILD ] I was interested in seeing what they had to draw, and my heart sank when they told me "but I can't draw that pretty." Children deserve to draw what they imagine.
These environmental, ethical, and pedagogical concerns are why I don't want [ CHILD ] to use AI tools (or for you to use them on their behalf). For the same reasons, I respectfully ask that you stop using them in your classroom.
If you do plan to use AI this year, please send home a permission slip requesting consent. There are important privacy concerns when you upload student work into a for-profit service like ChatGPT.
Thank you,
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January 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious
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9/ The hep B birth dose exists partly as a safety net for infants whose mothers didn’t receive prenatal care.
Those families don’t have a physician relationship to navigate shared decision-making. That’s who this policy abandons.
Those families don’t have a physician relationship to navigate shared decision-making. That’s who this policy abandons.
January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
9/ The hep B birth dose exists partly as a safety net for infants whose mothers didn’t receive prenatal care.
Those families don’t have a physician relationship to navigate shared decision-making. That’s who this policy abandons.
Those families don’t have a physician relationship to navigate shared decision-making. That’s who this policy abandons.
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We deeply need to stop and take stock of where we’re heading, because right now we are hurtling as fast as we can in the opposite direction that every crucial, bloodstained lesson we learned in 2020 is begging us to go.
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We deeply need to stop and take stock of where we’re heading, because right now we are hurtling as fast as we can in the opposite direction that every crucial, bloodstained lesson we learned in 2020 is begging us to go.
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Connected to this, I think there's an assumption that political movements can't keep up their energy over many years or decades.
But they very clearly can! The push to contain and then end slavery had been a political issue for *decades* before the ACW. Civil Rights took a long time!
But they very clearly can! The push to contain and then end slavery had been a political issue for *decades* before the ACW. Civil Rights took a long time!
December 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Connected to this, I think there's an assumption that political movements can't keep up their energy over many years or decades.
But they very clearly can! The push to contain and then end slavery had been a political issue for *decades* before the ACW. Civil Rights took a long time!
But they very clearly can! The push to contain and then end slavery had been a political issue for *decades* before the ACW. Civil Rights took a long time!
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Trying to debunk a fascist, but for the record, this is a lie. New college was anything but an ideological bubble, and that’s what these folks hated about it.
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Trying to debunk a fascist, but for the record, this is a lie. New college was anything but an ideological bubble, and that’s what these folks hated about it.