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Parents Sue School That Gave Bad Grade to Student Who Used AI to Complete Assignment (gizmodo.com)

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A Massachusetts couple claims that their son's high school attempted to derail his future by giving him detention and a bad grade on an assignment he wrote using generative AI.

An old and powerful force has entered the fraught debate over generative AI in schools: litigious parents angry that their child may not be accepted into a prestigious university.

In what appears to be the first case of its kind, at least in Massachusetts, a couple has sued their local school district after it disciplined their son for using generative AI tools on a history project. Dale and Jennifer Harris allege that the Hingham High School student handbook did not explicitly prohibit the use of AI to complete assignments and that the punishment visited upon their son for using an AI tool—he received Saturday detention and a grade of 65 out of 100 on the assignment—has harmed his chances of getting into Stanford University and other elite schools.

Yeah, I'm 100% with the school on this one.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's funny how this reads like a typical "China bad" comment but goes on to show how economic inequality ruins society.

Not doubting or criticising you at all, just observing that "communist China" has very capitalist problems. If only they were more communist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The best parts of Actually Existing Socialism are commodity production and a centralized state!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There’s a lot of criticism of Chinese capitalist tendencies from the left. Yeah they do some things with communist values and everything but Dengism runs deep. The fact is that in the people’s republic of China the workers lack the power to exert their will on the means of production and the wealthy have the ability to exert outsized power over society and those around them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone working adjacent to highschools in the West, there's not a single difference in my experience to theirs. It's not an issue of their economic system, it's an issue of people around the entire world. Seems like entitlement has never been higher amongst parents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes where privilege and inequality run amok, which is amplified by the economic system