By Feon Chau
I recently sat across from a Grade 11 student who had filed a complaint about his English teacher. On paper, he had failed a term assignment and it looked like a grade dispute. In our conversation though, a different story emerged.
He was a high-performing student who gave up on the task because he couldn’t see the point. To complete it at the last minute, he used AI. What looked like a grade dispute at first was actually an assessment-design problem in English-medium schools, made visible by AI.
Feon Chau is a writer and international educator based in Taiwan. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she now lives in Taichung with her family. She writes about how small decisions shape real lives inside classrooms, meeting rooms, and living rooms.
