What was the litany going through school? Do you want good grades? Do your homework. Do you want to ace that class presentation? Do your homework. Yet the Marion City Community School District can’t be bothered by homework. This supposed bastion of education is doing a lousy job of modeling what it is to be a student. Don’t have the time or inclination to do your homework? Let ChatGPT do the work for you. What message is being sent when the district’s curriculum specialist says, “It would be impossible to read all the books and to filter for questionable content.” Enter artificial, ersatz intelligence, with its flawed technology, that determines that a book such as “Friday Night Lights” should be banned. Author Buzz Bissinger has a point. “If you’re going to ban a book, you might as well read it,” adding, “Instead, you’re too lazy to read it.” This don’t- bother-to-do-your-homework modeling is also present here in the Central Bucks school district with its book banning policy. The policy eliminates the requirement to review a book in its entirety, allowing conservative groups like Moms for Liberty, Book Look and Book Looks to “manufacture moral panic” while eliminating the need for parents to actually do any homework, and actually read any of the books in question. These groups have created their own “Cliffs Notes” for conservatives, fomenting and organizing around parental outrage, demanding a book’s removal based on conservative canned canards. These groups provide “easy to understand book content reviews centered around objectionable content.” No homework necessary. Just cut and paste. This is hardly the example that parents, school districts and school boards should be modeling for their students. It speaks to Bissinger’s lament, “You’re just too lazy to read it.” Shame on these education administrators and supervisors. Shame on the parents who swallow whole the conservative line, refusing to look beyond, to the bigger picture, to read the book. By banning content using cribbed notes instead of doing their own homework, these actors are in actuality doing their students and young people a great disservice. By limiting educational content for their students and their children, these adults are depriving young people of the opportunity to be challenged, to question and be questioned, to develop resilience, to see a wider world, to grow. It is the antithesis of what one should hope to instill in a child growing up in today’s ever-changing and increasingly diverse world. Yet it is easier, lazier, to let the Moms for Liberty and others of its ilk do the thinking, thus precluding any need for homework, or to think for oneself.