Teachers decry AI as brain-rotting junk food for kids: ‘Students can’t reason. They can’t think. They can’t solve problems’

In the 1980s and 1990s, if a high school student was down on their luck, short on time, and looking for an easy way out, cheating took real effort. You had a few different routes. You could beg your smart older sibling to do the work for you, or, a la Back to School (1989), you could even hire a professional writer. You could enlist a daring friend to find the answer key to the homework on the teachers’ desk. Or, you had the classic excuses to demur: my dog ate my homework, and the like.