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The problem is that professors and teachers are being forced to dumb down material. The university gets money from students attending, and you can’t fail them all. It goes with that college being mandatory aspect.
Even worse at the high school level. They put students who weren’t capable of doing freshman algebra in my advanced physics class. I had to reorient the entire class into “conceptual/project based learning” because it was clearly my fault when they failed my tests. (And they couldn’t be bothered turning in the products either).
To fail a student, I had to have the parents sign a contract and agree to let them fail.
Yes if people aren't interested in the class or the schooling system fails the teacher or student, they're going to fail the class.
That's not the fault of new "AI" things, that's the fault of (in America) decades of underfunding the education system and saying it's good to be ignorant.
I'm sorry you've had a hard time as a teacher. I'm sure you're passionate and interested in your subject. A good math teacher really explores the concepts beyond "this is using exponents with fractions" and dives into the topic.
I do say this as someone who had awful math teachers, as a dyscslculic person. Made a subject I already had a hard time understanding boring and uninteresting.