The parents who tried to sue the school over it are dumber:
A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment.
Dale and Jennifer Harris sued Hingham High School officials and the School Committee and sought a preliminary injunction requiring the school to change their son’s grade and expunge the incident from his disciplinary record before he needs to submit college applications. The parents argued that there was no rule against using AI in the student handbook, but school officials said the student violated multiple policies.
The Harris’ motion for an injunction was rejected in an order issued yesterday from US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. US Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson found that school officials “have the better of the argument on both the facts and the law.”
Via Instapundit. What makes this extra-dumb was that the punishments for the kid were: having to redo the project; a Saturday detention; and not being allowed to join the National Honor Society – and even then the school gave way on that, once the lawsuit was announced. The parents should have quit when they were behind at that point, but now it’s in the courts, and I hope it ends up costing them enough money not to try to do more damfool lawsuits in the future. Using AI to make up references and citations is cheating, handbook or not.
Use your heads for something besides a hat-rack, all right? Your kid is watching what you do.