Hacker News Reader

Homework is no longer useful in the era of AI. Options are: treat kids like they are able to make responsible choices, and accept that much more of them will fail; or, keep the charade of grading AI-"assisted" homework and push kids farther along the track, even though they definitely don't know enough.

I much prefer the first.

School shouldn't be impossible, but you shouldn't have a charade of schooling.

Obviously, extra practice is a good idea.

View on HN

It's not necessarily useless. If you make assignments short, provide some time in school to work on it, and do not allow students to use devices with access to general-purpose "AI", then there is a good chance most students will do the work like they're supposed to. Some will still cheat, but it's foolish to reorganize everything around the few who stubbornly refuse to learn.

> provide some time in school to work on it

Assignments students do in class isn't "homework". It's just classwork. All my math classes had both.

Perhaps you mean study halls? Those were uncommon until highschool where I grew up. And most of the time people spent there was not studying.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com