At 9 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the Bronx, a seventh grade math teacher sits at her kitchen table with a stack of exit tickets. She isn’t assigning grades. She’s figuring out which of her 24 students missed the same thing today, and why, so tomorrow starts better.

That’s expert work, done alone, unpaid, at the end of a 14-hour day.

I did that job for six years in the South Bronx. My first year, I was not terrible, but I just didn’t know yet how much of the job happens after the bell. Despite the warnings.

Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and Mayor Mamdani have announced that generative AI is banned for students from 2-K through eighth grade, with narrow room in high school for AI literacy and career programs. Teachers can still use approved tools to plan and handle operations, not grading, IEPs, or behavior tracking. Multilingual learners........

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