A former Concord kindergarten teacher has claimed artificial intelligence played a role in the performance review that ultimately cost her her job in a Massachusetts public school.
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According to Boston 25 News, teacher Christine Apollos was dismissed by superintendent Laurie Hunter in 2025 based on evaluation documents from the prior two school years. The district cited alleged inefficiency, incompetence, and failure to meet performance standards as just cause.
Apollos disputed the termination and took the case to arbitration, where she contended that parts of those evaluations — among them the final review that recommended termination — were generated using AI instead of being written by the principal.
Apollos reportedly used the tool GPTZero in an attempt to identify the use of AI in the documents, highlighting mistakes and possible AI “hallucinations” in the materials…