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Yesterday, two HISD parents who teach at Rice published an op-ed, “We're professors. We're parents. HISD students don't deserve AI slop“ [Gift Link]. Reading it will motivate you to keep fighting for strong public schools in every neighborhood and give you ammunition when you speak at the two-year anniversary of this harmful HISD takeover at the June 12th board meeting.

They wrote, “when eighth graders in the Houston Independent School District sat down for a lesson about the Harlem Renaissance movement’s significance, they were treated to a slideshow with zero images made by Harlem Renaissance artists. Instead, students were shown two obviously AI-generated illustrations. Both depicted Black people with missing or monstrously distorted facial features, a tell-tale sign of “AI slop.”

They continued that “HISD parents, though, can see what is going on. All school-year long, in online forums and community meetings, we have shared troubling findings from our students’ computers and backpacks: worksheets riddled with errors and lifeless lessons that stifle curiosity and emphasize standardized tests.”

Teacher Brad Wray also wrote an “Op-Ed: Teacher Turnover: Does It Matter?” He wrote, “Superintendent Miles has gone on record saying he’s not worried about teacher turnover. Well, it worries me. My kids are in school now, we don’t have three years for replacement teachers to get up to speed and at this rate, they won’t stick around that long anyways.”

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