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Chatham schools report declines in serious incidents; tardiness and AI-aided cheating remain top issues
Summary
Assistant principals from Chatham High, Chatham Middle and Lafayette presented the district's annual discipline report, showing overall low numbers of suspensions and HIB confirmations but continued challenges with lateness, gender disparity in infractions and use of AI in cheating.
Chatham (School District of the Chathams) Board of Education assistant principals presented the district's annual discipline report at the board's public meeting, saying overall discipline incidents remained low while raising concerns about student tardiness and the academic use of artificial intelligence.
Connor Henderson, assistant principal at Chatham High School, told the board the annual review is intended to "reflect on some of the topics and areas that, you know, we wanna educate students on, evaluate procedures within our building and, you know, consider any training that we we may wanna implement for the staff in the following school year." He reported 458 total recorded infractions at the high school this year, 263 of which were lateness to school.
The report showed the high school's total discipline-type incidents numbered 167 against an enrollment of about 1,205 students (about 0.13 incidents per student). Henderson said the school recorded nine students who received at least one day of out-of-school…
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