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.
I have my doubts that a student that uses generative AI to complete assignments would stand a chance at getting into an Ivy league school. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist student to know that using gen AI to write your assignment is cheating.
Elon partied his way through Stanford and now he’s one of the richest men on Earth. He built up a big bench of rich friends in Silicon Valley by getting all of them laid.
Bush Jr went to Yale after he couldn’t get into UTexas, earned his Gentlemen’s C, then ran off to become a millionaire with all his Saudi friends before running for Congress.
Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard once they got into the right business clubs. They raised enormous sums of money overnight for their projects and got them sold top shelf when it came time to IPO.
Admittance to the university means getting access to the right people. That’s what gives you the launch pad into the upper eschalons of society. GPA isn’t what matters at this level.