![JV boys soccer goalie sophomore Bear Brummett does a goal kick. Normally, Brummett plays defense, but when starting goalie sophomore Kurt Schratweiser missed a match due to illness, Brummett was thrust into the role. “[Brummett] did a great job, especially considering he hadn’t played the position in so long,” Head Coach Casey McDonough said.](https://spschronicle.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image2-1200x800.jpg)
This letter is in response to: Editorial: Stop the AI Double Standard on Campus
Dear Chronicle Editors,
Every issue of The Chronicle is better than the last, and I particularly enjoyed the most recent print edition. Congratulations on the fruits of your labor!
I read with interest your coverage of AI in schools, and I appreciate that you provided a balanced look at the tools and policies in place at Shorecrest. I’d love to add another voice to the conversation about the discrepancies between student and faculty AI use.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect states that people with limited knowledge or skill tend to overestimate their abilities; by contrast, those with deep knowledge or adept skills understand where they fall short. In other words, we don’t know what we don’t know. I would likely not be able to tell if Gemini calculated my grades wrong, and I would not ask Claude for legal advice.
But I am an expert in my subject matter (English literature), as all faculty are experts in theirs. If we use AI to help build a learning activity, we can evaluate its accuracy and relevance. When I turned to Gemini to create a student writing exemplar, it returned a well-crafted piece of nonsense, replete with fabricated evidence and an irrelevant claim. My students thought it was an impressive bit of writing and did not spot the egregious errors. Similarly, I’m not fooled when students use AI to help them write Shakespearean-style sonnets; even 10,000 monkeys with typewriters wouldn’t compare your cat to a winter’s day!
Shorecrest students are bright, resourceful, and endlessly creative. They are not (yet!) experts in their academic fields. For these reasons, it is appropriate that students have more AI restrictions than faculty–just as MS students have more AI restrictions than US students.
For the record, I think AI is going to destroy the world. I hate it, and every time that I have tried to use it, I have become even more convinced that it is not worth its financial, ethical, and environmental costs. But since its use is already widespread, we must at least establish responsible boundaries.
Your loyal reader,
Dr. Lizz Angello