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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] 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope these parents get their legs kicked out from under them. The kid cheated and got caught.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

These kids need to learn what "fuck around and find out" means by themselves. Sheltering them from consequences does a lot of damage later on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Actually, the lesson I'm starting to see over the past few years is that for certain groups of people, there are ABSOLUTELY no consequences and every failure is just failing up. There's a good chance this kid will never find out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Both to them and society.