Students may soon face stricter rules at Roseville High School. The English department has been drafting a policy to address the use of AI, which can replace the thinking and writing that students are meant to do themselves.
“The AI policy for the English department is that we will have a zero tolerance for the use of AI for students in English classes. Meaning that if they use AI to create original content, or they’re claiming it’s their content, they’ll receive a zero for it,” Handling said.
One key part of the policy is that any AI misuse will be logged as a pre-referral in Aeries.
“It’ll go in as a pre-referral so that we can document the usage of AI. We have some students who have used AI in numerous classes. And so, as long as we’re documenting it along the way, we can be more proactive with changing that behavior,” Handling said.
Although the policy is currently a draft, some students are sharing their opinions on how it might affect them.
“I think the first time being zero tolerance is kind of unfair to the student. I think that you should be given a chance, and then in the future, then I’d say it’s more okay to kind of punish the student. But for the first time, I feel like everyone should get a second shot,” junior Nathan Marquez said.
“Yeah it’s fair because I know a bunch of kids who do use AI to use it on their assignments. So, I think it’s pretty fair,” junior Zacharie Abingosa said.
“I think at first people might get zeros because maybe they don’t know about the policy or they just choose not to follow it, but I think eventually that it will even out and we’ll all not write our essays with AI,” junior Lucas Chen said.
“I feel like teachers should put that on their syllabus that if you use AI, you get an automatic zero,” Abingosa added.
“I think that teachers will have to be less strict on their students and be more laidback because they expect their students not to use AI because of the policies that are in place,” Chen also added.
With student opinions voiced, the policy is meant to set up students for success, according to Handling.
“In college, if you use AI and you’re caught, you will automatically fail the class. It’s not an F for the assignment. You will lose credit for the entire course. So the theory here is that we are setting you up for success by teaching you early on that it’s a zero-tolerance policy,” Handling said.
