The Forums Where AI-in-Education Should Live Are Unusable

The timing matters more than the spam itself. Reddit's educator forums go incoherent during the same window when U.S. school districts are finalizing AI policies — not in the abstract future, but now, in the weeks when the College Board is quietly reassessing AI-assisted writing and administrators are drafting language that will govern classrooms for years. The absence of a functional practitioner forum is not a nuisance; it is a policy input failure. The people with direct classroom experience are posting into a void, and removed promotional listings from engineering…