this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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I would be so pissed if I lived / paid taxes in that school's district and my tax dollars had to pay those legal bills. Would consider suing those parents myself.
If it wasn't in the rules and they punished the kid for it, you should be mad at the school for not updating the rules and asking the kid to do the assignment over on another topic like an adult. Instead they abused their station and wound up wasting our tax dollars.
You don't just detain people because they do something different without first codifying it being wrong. Otherwise we'd have millions of people in jail for putting ketchup on a hotdog.
The schools I've been to all have academic integrity policies that prohibit students from turning in work that isn't their own. They're all worded broadly enough to encompass generative AI.
This school appears to have added it to their rules after this incident.... So why not just tell the kid to redo the assignment and wipe the detention from his record and be done with it. Instead they are being stubborn and wasting our taxes.
Like I said broadly worded enough to cover it. If the school just added "AI" to the handbook couldn't the next dipshit just argue: BuT yOU diDN't SpeCiFy No GPT9000 hurrdurr.
If they give the kid who cheated a chance to rewrite a fully graded paper, they'd have to give all the other students that same opportunity, otherwise they'd be on unequal footing.