What hit Mr. Johnson first wasn’t the students. It was the requirements. He wasn’t just learning to plan lessons; he was trying to keep up with format requirements, mandatory components, submission timelines, and template fields - while also navigating accommodation documentation, internal systems, attendance procedures, parent contact logs, and data protocols. It wasn’t just “plan a lesson.” It was to prove you planned it - in the correct format, with the correct labels, aligned to the correct expectations, uploaded to the correct place. He didn’t feel like he was learning to teach; he felt like he was learning to produce paperwork. The core issue in Mr. Johnson’s story is not that he used AI to accomplish this, it's that AI showed up before he had down the basics of the craft.