An English teacher who went viral on social media for a nine-minute video revealing why she quit education has now opened up in an interview about why students turn to artificial intelligence to complete their assignments.
‘A lot of them are just feeling as though they don’t really need to do the work anymore because AI will just do it for them,’ Hannah said in an interview with Fox & Friends.
Hannah explained that when she confronted students she suspected were using ChatGPT to write their essays, they responded that they’d rather just take a failing grade than put the effort into doing something artificial intelligence could do.
She said the students would tell her, ‘If I have to redo this, how much is it really going to affect my grade? Can I just take the zero?’
Hannah went on to clarify that she wasn’t against artificial intelligence and believed it could be effective in the classroom for older students, but unlimited access to the technology prevents children from learning the information first on their own.
The former English teacher explained that she started her career in digital marketing before her three-year stint in education.
She said she was well-versed in the digital world, but seeing how AI hindered students’ education eventually forced her to leave teaching.
‘In all of my teaching experience, technology has posed quite a challenge. And with AI becoming so accessible to children nowadays, especially teaching in an English or core four classroom, it’s been especially challenging,’ Hannah explained.
Hannah, a former English teacher, appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss why she left education after three years
Hannah said students are reliant on ChatGPT and don’t understand why they’re given assignments that AI can do
She said she witnessed comprehension and critical thinking skills wither away in classrooms and wanted to raise awareness about how AI impacts children’s learning.
Hannah added that she taught many bright and motivated children, clarifying that their desire to use AI for their assignments wasn’t their fault.
She said many students didn’t understand why they had to write long-form essays, and she frequently received assignments that weren’t written in the student’s voice, leading her to believe they used ChatGPT.
Hannah started using AI generators to check whether her students were using ChatGPT for their assignments and found that many of their essays were 100% written by AI.
The former teacher detailed her experience in modern classrooms at length in a TikTok rant that received over a million views.
Hannah, who taught tenth-grade students, told her social media followers, ‘These kids don’t know how to read.’
‘Because they’ve had things read to them, or they can just click a button and have something read out loud,’ she continued.
‘Their attention spans are waning. Everything is high stimulation. They can scroll in less than a minute.’
The former teacher went viral on social media for her nine-minute video detailing the disturbing reality in K-12 schools as AI becomes more accessible to children
Hannah went on to say that she doesn’t ‘have a lot of faith’ in the kids she taught and said many ‘don’t care about making a difference in the world.’
She added that she believes kids should be ‘cut off from technology’ and pleaded with educators to start reintegrating manual methods back into school.
‘This generation is really tough,’ Hannah confessed. ‘And I will admit that I’m just not cut out for it. Anyone who starts now… I commend you. God bless. I wish I was stronger.’
Hannah revealed on Fox & Friends that she was happy to leave education and start a new career at a non-profit running donor relations.
