Massachusetts parents sue school district over student receiving 'D' after using AI for social studies project

The parents of a Massachusetts precocious schoolhouse elder who utilized artificial intelligence (AI) for a societal studies task person filed a suit against his teachers and the schoolhouse aft their lad received detention and a "D" grade.

"He’s been accused of cheating, and it wasn’t cheating, determination was nary regularisation successful the handbook against AI," Jennifer Harris, who on with her husband, Dale, are named arsenic plaintiffs successful the suit filed successful Massachusetts’ Plymouth County District Court past period against the Hingham High School medication and the schoolhouse district, told Boston 25 News. 

The suit alleges that their lad volition "suffer irreparable harm that is imminent" implicit the people that his parents accidental kept him retired of the National Honor Society, which they assertion is threatening his lasting with apical tier colleges. 

"So, our statement to the schoolhouse was could you neglect him with a 59 alternatively of a 53 truthful helium tin person a B minus? He’s applying to apical tier schools," Harris told the quality station. "He’s applying to Stanford, he’s applying to MIT. They spot a ‘C’ [grade] and it’s going successful the trash."

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The parents of a Massachusetts precocious schoolhouse elder who utilized artificial quality portion penning a societal studies insubstantial person filed a suit against his teachers and the schoolhouse aft their lad received detention and a "D" grade. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Harris said that the schoolhouse "basically punished him for a regularisation that doesn’t exist," saying that the school’s codification of behaviour handbook ne'er mentioned the usage of AI successful projects until their lad was punished, WCVB-TV reported. 

She added that her lad argued "it's good documented that AI is the spot of the idiosyncratic who generated it," WBZ-TV reported.

While the schoolhouse called it plagiarism, the parents and their lawyer disagree. 

"There's a wide gulf of accusation retired determination that says AI isn't plagiarism," Peter Farrell, who is representing the family, told WCVB. 

Harris told the quality presumption that their lad had already missed rolling admissions astatine his prime schools, adding that helium had received a cleanable people connected his ACT. 

The parents sued the Hingham High School medication and their son's teachers, arsenic good arsenic the schoolhouse district.  (Google Maps)

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The student’s begetter argued that portion the schoolhouse can’t "undo" immoderate of his punishments, they tin alteration his grade, let him into the National Honor Society and marque it wide that helium didn't cheat connected his paper. 

"You already made him redo the paper, you can’t undo the Saturday detention," helium told WCVB-TV. "But determination are immoderate things you tin hole close present and bash the close thing."

The parents of a pupil are arguing successful a suit that utilizing AI isn't plagiarism.    (Getty Images)

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Hingham Public Schools didn’t instantly instrumentality Fox News Digital’s petition for remark connected Saturday, but has antecedently told quality outlets the territory couldn’t remark connected ongoing litigation.