The school has an academic honestly policy which explicitly bans it, under “Cheating”, which includes:
“Falsifying or inventing any academic work, including the use of AI (ChatGPT, etc)”
Additionally, as mentioned, the school is taking actions to change how work is done to ensure students are actually doing their own work - such as requiring written assignments be completed during class time, or giving homework on physical paper that is to be marked up by hand and returned.
Apparently this is the first year they have been doing this, as last year they had significant problems with submitted work not being authored by students.
This is in an extremely competitive Bay Area school, so there can be a lot of pressure from parents on students to make top grades, and sometimes that has negative side effects.
Asking as a non-American non-school-pupil-parent: what does it mean for a school to be competitive in this context? Competitive entry into a school I understand, but that threshold has been cleared. Isn’t US college admission based on essays and standardised tests like GMAT, SAT, GRE?
“Falsifying or inventing any academic work, including the use of AI (ChatGPT, etc)”
Additionally, as mentioned, the school is taking actions to change how work is done to ensure students are actually doing their own work - such as requiring written assignments be completed during class time, or giving homework on physical paper that is to be marked up by hand and returned.
Apparently this is the first year they have been doing this, as last year they had significant problems with submitted work not being authored by students.
This is in an extremely competitive Bay Area school, so there can be a lot of pressure from parents on students to make top grades, and sometimes that has negative side effects.