{"id":56237,"date":"2026-05-30T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/56237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:42:13","slug":"opinion-the-first-a-i-high-school-in-the-u-s-is-surprisingly-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/56237\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The First A.I. High School in the U.S. Is Surprisingly Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muhammad Rizwan, who graduated from Seckinger in 2024 and goes to Emory University, echoed much of what Mr. Schrage said: There was a lot of A.I. where you would expect it in, say, robotics classes, but not much of it elsewhere. In language-arts classes, he said, teachers made the kids write essays in class by hand to prevent them from cheating by using ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rizwan explained that teachers (whom he described as \u201camazing\u201d) still had to meet the county\u2019s standards, and teachers were supposed to tweak those standards to add an A.I. component. \u201cWould the teachers really follow this? Not really, but was it expected of them? Yes,\u201d said Mr. Rizwan, who is an anthropology and human biology major on the pre-med track. He said some of the teachers seemed almost offended by the incursion of chatbots.<\/p>\n

Is there proof that incorporating A.I., even if it is not ubiquitous, is helping prepare Seckinger students for the world? By the county\u2019s own measures, only 38.4 percent<\/a> of Seckinger graduates are \u201ccollege ready,\u201d which means they took the ACT and SAT, and met a selected group of benchmarks; an additional 19.4 percent complete a career, technical and agricultural education pathway. Seckinger underperforms other high schools in the county with similar socioeconomic profiles on both metrics.<\/p>\n

In fairness to Seckinger, it is new, and since there is no clear definition of A.I. literacy, it would be difficult to independently assess how well versed its graduates are in the technology. When I asked Bernard Watson, the interim chief engagement officer for Gwinnett County schools, about the comparison with other nearby schools, he pointed out that Seckinger\u2019s graduation rate, at over 95 percent, is among the highest in the district, and he said that is an example of strong student engagement.<\/p>\n

I also asked why so many students and parents felt there wasn\u2019t very much A.I. in the curriculum when the cluster labels itself as A.I.-focused. \u201cWhen we talk about being \u2018A.I. ready,\u2019 we understand that some may assume we\u2019re just talking about new software or coding. In reality, our focus is much more human. We\u2019re prioritizing \u2018durable skills\u2019 that machines can\u2019t replicate \u2014 like creative problem solving, ethical thinking and collaborative leadership,\u201d Mr. Watson said in an email. He added that on some days the school may look traditional, but teachers are always looking for new ways to infuse Seckinger\u2019s A.I. framework into their lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammad Rizwan, who graduated from Seckinger in 2024 and goes to Emory University, echoed much of what Mr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,32774,32772,2989,1555,3388,13748,13749,2981,32773,684,2217,9607,32518],"class_list":["post-56237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-buford-ga","tag-children-and-childhood","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-e-learning","tag-education-k-12","tag-education-secondary","tag-georgia","tag-gwinnett-county-ga","tag-innovation","tag-khan-academy","tag-parenting","tag-teachers-and-school-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}