Teachers across the country have begun using artificial intelligence to craft lesson plans, Allderdice faculty being no exception. Many started by using the commonly known ChatGPT, but over the last few weeks, a new product has emerged. Chinese-owned DeepSeek has been growing in popularity among lazy teachers everywhere.

The change has been evident in many different classrooms. The Backword spoke with a few students who first noticed the changes in their classes. One student in Mrs. Britain’s AP Calculus BC class said, “We’ve been learning how to calculate derivatives over the past couple of weeks, but yesterday, she used limit notation to explain how the Tiananmen Square massacre never actually happened!”

In Ms. Tuna's art class, she usually lets her students pick whoever they want to draw for her yearly portrait project, but this year, she has limited students to a list of select individuals. “A couple of the people you can choose for the project are Supreme Leader Xi Jinping, the greatest basketball player of all time, Yao Ming, or the most humane business owner, Jack Ma,” said Ms. Tuna.

She also encouraged students to create hate drawings of “the enemies.” A couple of examples she gave of people to draw in a negative light were former United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the Dalai Lama, and any CCP Political Dissident.

It’s not only affecting lesson plans, either. In Mr. Huffer’s history class, a student was reprimanded for reasonably normal behavior. “I was just talking to a classmate about my dinner plans while walking into class, but as soon as I mentioned the fact that I was getting Taiwanese food for dinner, Huffer screamed ‘台湾菜就是中国菜你这个败类! (Taiwanese food is just Chinese food, you scum!)’ He then kicked me out of class and sent me to the principal's office,” said the student.

Mr. Huffer’s behavior is incredibly unusual, given his typically preferential treatment of minorities.

The spread of DeepSeek has also reached the administration. Last week, they released a statement on the controversial Chinese-owned social media app TikTok. “We have decided to rescind the new rules on phones that were put in place at the beginning of the school year under the condition that every student uses TikTok at all times,” said the statement put out by Dr. McBigBoy.

Dr. McBigBoy has also halted the banning of students caught using VPNs on school wifi. While the popular X-VPN is still not allowed, the administration is letting students use a new CCP-owned and operated VPN, Kung-Fu VPN. Although consistent, the new VPN is notorious for a frequent pattern of data theft.

After many parents had voiced their fears, The Backword conducted an investigation and found a public Google Drive folder on Dr.McBigBoy’s desktop that all but proved the school’s guilt. The folder contained a Google sheet with a list of every single student who has logged into Kung-Fu VPN, followed by their social security number, personal phone number, and data on every bad thing they had ever said about Allderdice.

When we released our findings, math teacher Mr. Douche strangely requested the information of a handful of senior girls who were on the list.

Allderdice students will have to wait and see if these rule changes will lead to any further changes in the curriculum or their usage of personal devices.