Posted on 01/08/2023 9:49:13 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
On a phone, which I am using 98% of the time, it is more like “touch” send.
The legal side of me wants to see these school administrators fired, blacklisted from all education, and sued into destitution. The intelligence loving side of me wants them to suffer every one of the physical means available to the Inquisition. I have to keep telling the second side that Christ would not approve.
>These authors sure weren’t National Merit Award winners.
Could be AI. For example, msn.com now uses AI for article generation. They’ve been doing that for around a year.
Such a change would not be much of a Shaka to me.
Or “hit send”
The thing that was withheld was those students that were commended. The finalists and semifinalists who actually get the scholarships did find out. Commended does not get a scholarship, it is a pat on the back, close but no cigar.
Good point. I’ve noticed that lots of writing has become absolutely atrocious full of construction, grammatical, punctuation, and capitalization errors as well as run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
I chalked it up to the failures in our public school system. But AI could be another root cause.
I’m shocked at the huge number of trash web sites now that are clearly AI amalgamations of text the system found on other web sites. You find these a lot when you are searching for reviews of products.
It must have been, since both apology letters by the principals of two different high schools contained the same boilerplate language expressing concern for the education of their students.
-PJ
” I’ve noticed that lots of writing has become absolutely atrocious full of construction, grammatical, punctuation, and capitalization errors as well as run-on sentences and sentence fragments. “
Shouldn’t “atrocious” have a colon (”:”) after it? Or maybe an elipsis (”...”)? (”, as it is” implied but omitted). Just teasing you.
Fairfax County Public Schools is by far the most toxic work environment I ever heard of. Principals refuse to discipline kids for sexually assaulting and threatening death to teachers. Teachers are strongly warned NOT to involve the police.
It may depend on the school systems and what contracts the systems have with National Merit. Many schools may provide the testing time but then have nothing else to do with any notifications. The students get directly informed. Others want to “be apart” of the students’ “good news”!
LOL...I HATE it when I do that.
Of course, it could be that I was inserting that goof just to see if anybody would catch it. You passed!
Yeah, that’s it.
I think it has changed for most students and they have the option of being tested in alternate sites other than their schools. My son was informed directly from National Merit.
It’s when certain schools are acting as middlemen are where the problems are occurring.
Intermediate solution...parents need to opt for alternate site testing away from the schools.
Here’s one article. I’m sure it’s becoming pervasive throughout the various news organizations.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=msn.com+now+uses+ai&ia=web
Heck even the msn.com AI is self-promoting itself.
Just aaargh! If you did the work and should’ve been given an A, what does it matter if she didn’t know you?
Not the actual National Merit Scholarship, but many, many colleges and universities have other scholarships that go to attainees of National Merit status. Withholding official notice of that status may have cost these students college educations.
If I understand correctly, the awarded students is a fixed number, 50,000, not a percentage of test-takers.
“No information goes through any school.”
Apparently it does.
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The A would have made me valedictorian. I was
a transfer student. I got over it.
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