[pessimizer]

This is just mass cheating. If you want to fix it, tell the kids to study with AI at home, and make them write in class. Schools should stop accepting homework altogether. Assign it, and tell them if they don't do it, they're going to end up failing the tests, which are all that's going to count for their grade.

The problem that they're going to have with this is that the schools have already been covering for bad teaching and lost students by making all the criteria fuzzy, and relying on homework that kids could cheat their way through for a large part of the grade i.e. credit for participation. Now, with AI, there's no way to deny that kids are cheating, and that's thrown the institution into a difficult position.

There's no educational threat from AI, AI will only help people learn. The threat is to the institution, which runs on a lot of dishonesty. We'll have to learn to tolerate some kids being left behind and make the effort (and create the systems) to move them forward again, instead of pretending like everyone is handling it. A system that can't deal with every kid losing a year of school, like what happened during covid, is a system that is focused more on schedule than student.

[threatofrain]

The institution which is passing children through is not corrupt, it is serving the will and moral character of the people. It has not departed from its mission to do the best it can.

The people don't want the slightest fluctuation of whatever complex story surrounds the issue to means a chunk of children fail. In contrast parents would rather as much record fuzziness as possible if it means giving children a 2nd or 100th chance (putting aside the dooming issue that bad tests mean funding cuts).

So I think you'll find that it's not just that records are fuzzy in school, padded up by participation and homework and extra credit, it's that you'll likely be able to predict which regions are fuzzier than others in record keeping.