Boss wants me to force a student to share his screen during lessons- I'm very uncomfortable about it, what do?
I tutor English online for UK students (I'm in South Africa). We work in Teams and Pencil Spaces. Recently I've had to give a student a serious "I'm disappointed, you're better than this, etc" shpiel about him using AI to generate his assigned creative writing work (entirely without my knowledge).
My boss (she got me the students and handles admin stuff) has told me I now have to make the student share his screen for most/all of his lessons so I can make sure he's not using AI. I understand her reasoning and I don't exactly disagree that it's the only way to 100% ensure he's not using AI, but I really feel that its a bridge too far, and that it's an invasion of his privacy. I'm not even sure it would be allowed knowing how strict UK law is around kids and tech and what have you. The parents are also all for it but even still. Should I just go ahead and have him screen share from now on? I've had a couple other problems with this boss before but I put up with her because its money in the bank, but I am a bit paranoid she's getting us both into ethical and/or legal trouble.