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submitted 10 hours ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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@sh.itjust.works 59 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 28 points 10 hours 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.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 16 points 9 hours ago

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@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 points 9 hours ago

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)

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 points 7 hours ago

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

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