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Parent raises dual‑credit AI‑detection concerns; Venus ISD officials outline district AI program
Summary
A parent told the Venus ISD board that a Hill College dual‑credit English professor used AI‑detection tools to give students zeros; district staff described a district‑managed AI tutor program, training and device restrictions and said college faculty set dual‑credit policies.
A parent told the Venus Independent School District Board of Trustees on Oct. 20 that a Hill College professor for a dual‑credit English course used AI‑detection software to assign zeros and that Venus ISD staff had declined to intervene.
At the same meeting the district’s AI lead described Venus ISD’s multi‑year effort to pilot and scale teacher‑created “intelligent tutors,” said teachers control the tutors and that the district blocks most other AI systems on school devices.
The parent, identified in public comment as Jeremy Windle, said the Hill College instructor’s practice was to run students’ essays through AI detectors without reading them first, and to assign a zero if any AI‑generated text was detected. “If the essays are detected as having any portion of AI writing, the student receives a grade of 0,” Windle said, adding that students were told to “dumb down” papers to avoid being flagged. He said district staff had told him Hill College, not Venus ISD, must handle the matter.
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