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The essay was on “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller — an allegory to the Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare. It’s about a community destroying people based on unreliable testimony and refusing to back down. The assignment could hardly have been more on the nose.
In October, a sophomore submitted an essay on the text to his English teacher at Palo Alto High School, Sarah Bartlett. By December, he had been accused of using mostly AI to compose it and was required to do an in-class rewrite — which got him a D…