Ground report from 8th grade: every essay now has the same voice. Not a bad voice — the same one. I used to be able to hear which kid wrote which paragraph by October. This year I can't, and worse, when I ask them to revise by hand, some genuinely can't find their own first sentence. I'm not anti-AI. I'm anti not-knowing-which-of-my-students-can-still-start-a-sentence.