An elite Queens high school is forcing students to ditch keyboards for pens as a way to stop them from using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to cheat, The Post has learned.

In a move that has some students fuming, Townsend Harris High School is ending its long-standing policy of letting kids type summer reading essays at home, and instead making them complete the graded assignment by hand during the first weeks of September.

The assignment, a back-to-school rite of passage, typically requires students to read a book over the summer for their English class and turn in a written essay when they return to class. 5

“We’ve noticed too much use of artificial intelligence in the past and think in-class will allow for a more authentic representation of student thinking,”

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