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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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[–] conciselyverbose 89 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They didn't even give him the 0 he deserved?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Right? He didn't earn the knowledge for himself (which is the whole point of school) so he was lucky, IMO, to even get that undeserved 65.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's been a while since teachers were allowed to give out 0s in highschool. When I taught 12 years ago the lowest I was allowed to give was a 65. Even if nothing was turned in.

[–] conciselyverbose 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine how bad of a student I would have been if "literally don't do it" was a 65. That's insane.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Literally don't do it" is a 65 and you have the rest of the grading period to make up or redo any assignment up until the last day. So basically, float through 9 weeks doing nothing, then cram in the easiest assignments after school during the last week to get a passing grade.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine this must depend on the location of the school in question. Im in my mid 20s, so my high school experience was more recent than 12 years ago, but I remember getting quite a few zeros (was an absolutely horrible procrastinator who would tend to respond to the stress of having a due date coming up by doing anything else to not think about the source of said stress, which led to a lot of simply not turned in schoolwork)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was a suburban school outside of a major city in the Midwest US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ah, I grew up in North Carolina, so definitely a different region for our experiences then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ah, ~~No~~ Child Left Behind working as intended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh jeez. Maybe it’s that I was in private school but I was a senior in high school and I only stopped getting zeros for un turned in work because my mom got cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Don't know where you were teaching but 12 years ago when I was in high school 0's were still completely a thing.