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A combination of issues tend to discourage learning, accelerate truancy, and create dismal life outcomes among the youth, especially those enrolled in public schools, where traditional rote memorization, teaching methods, how achievements are rewarded, and politics and power dynamics (i.e. bullying, nepotism, entitlement) within those schools are the norm. So these types of kids have a negative perception towards education as being tedium, and they want the diploma purely to be able to obtain immediate employment regardless of how much or less they have actually learned. Thus they'll try to cheat their way through, and using AI to beat the system is very tempting.
Is this thought based on one specific country?
I'm in a developing country, and experienced studying in public school, so I've seen what it was like to see some classmates coming from impoverished households struggling to deal with studies. Not to mention I had teachers for relatives, and they talk shop about the frustrations of teaching.
For all I know the issues I saw can happen elsewhere.
I teach machining, so that's: CNC programming, measuring, tolerances, technical drawing, math, 3D printing, memory techniques (because I think it's useful), proper AI use (because I have to), and a lot more.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, maybe it's age difference (students are paid to study and aged between 16-60), maybe it's because they get to test and use the theory in the workshop, but most students seem to like learning. There is always 1 or 2 kids in class (almost always teenage boys) being lazy in the wrong way.