For parents

Your child was accused. A parent's calm, ordered plan.

About 1 in 10 US teens say a teacher has wrongly flagged their work as AI-generated (Common Sense Media, 2024) — and two-thirds of middle- and high-school teachers now use detection tools regularly. If it happened in your house this week, you are in a large and growing company, and the path through it is a school process, not a courtroom.

Tonight: save everything, change nothing. Your child's drafts, the document's version history, notes, and the assignment itself. If the work was done on a school device or account, ask the school — in writing — to preserve the version history before it ages out. Tell your child plainly: no editing, no deleting, no “fixing,” and no running the paper through any website.

This week: get the process in writing. Ask the school four questions, by email: What exactly is my child accused of? Which program produced the score, and may we see the full report? What is the deadline and the process for responding? Who decides, and how do we appeal a decision? Schools run these cases through their discipline or academic-honesty policy; you are entitled to the policy itself.

How high school differs from college: you, the parent, are a party to the process — you can attend meetings, receive notices, and advocate in the room. Timelines are often shorter and less formal, which cuts both ways: it is easier to get a quick, sensible review, and easier for a score to be treated as settled fact unless someone calmly presents the trail. Bring the trail: printed, dated, in order.

The college pages on this site still help you — the evidence ranking and the statement structure translate directly; the checker's deadline math assumes a college window, so use your school's stated date instead. A dedicated parent edition of the kit is on our roadmap; the $39 kit's binder and scripts are written for the student, and parents tell us they use it side by side.