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My kid's school just got a new AI system to flag 'at risk' students.
Found out about it from a newsletter the district sent home. It tracks grades, attendance, even stuff like library book checkouts. The system gives each kid a risk score. The part that got me? It uses data from the last three years of students to guess about the new ones. So it's judging my kid based on what other, totally different kids did. I read the fine print. A student can get flagged just for checking out a certain type of book or missing two days in a row. Feels like a pre-crime report for failing math. Who decides what data points mean a kid is 'at risk'? Has anyone else had their local school roll out something like this?
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clark.robin1mo agoMost Upvoted
Ugh, my friend's kid got flagged for too many sci-fi books. @the_evan is right.
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black.pat1mo ago
That "training them for future credit scores" line really hit me. It's so ridiculous how they flag kids for reading sci-fi. Like, sorry your kid has an imagination and wants to read about something other than the same old historical fiction or whatever. I swear the system is just looking for any excuse to slap a label on someone these days. It's exhausting honestly, and I feel for your friend's kid.
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