Even if one accepts the premise that the purpose is not to educate children the education clearly still occurs and its effectiveness varries by school depending on a number of variables, many of which are controllable. Given that, you can increase how much the children learn without undermining the “true purpose” of the system, whatever one invisions that to be. To use your example, perhaps the children producing more reports actually does help them learn more. I am low confidence on that particular example but seems very possible to implement systems that increase educational efficiency below some threshold of costing current stakeholders material loses. I think your response here was too cynical.
We actually did have a post the other day reporting positive results of LLM use for education. The linked Harvard study contains a prompt that I was easily able to adapt and use with some fun and engaging results (just tried it on myself, not with students). I think suggesting a constructive approach like this for the (secondary) purpose of education could have been added in the discussion with the principal to make it seem less cynical. Also, training disadvantaged locals in LLM use for educating and as a side effect empowering them to also use the LLM tutor for themselves to learn about new topics in an engaging way could even be a benefit to themselves in the short to medium term.
Even if one accepts the premise that the purpose is not to educate children the education clearly still occurs and its effectiveness varries by school depending on a number of variables, many of which are controllable. Given that, you can increase how much the children learn without undermining the “true purpose” of the system, whatever one invisions that to be. To use your example, perhaps the children producing more reports actually does help them learn more. I am low confidence on that particular example but seems very possible to implement systems that increase educational efficiency below some threshold of costing current stakeholders material loses. I think your response here was too cynical.
We actually did have a post the other day reporting positive results of LLM use for education. The linked Harvard study contains a prompt that I was easily able to adapt and use with some fun and engaging results (just tried it on myself, not with students). I think suggesting a constructive approach like this for the (secondary) purpose of education could have been added in the discussion with the principal to make it seem less cynical. Also, training disadvantaged locals in LLM use for educating and as a side effect empowering them to also use the LLM tutor for themselves to learn about new topics in an engaging way could even be a benefit to themselves in the short to medium term.