The entitled California parents suing schools to overturn their kids’ bad grades

Some California parents aren’t willing to let a bad grade — or even an unflattering report-card comment — slide. Palo Alto Unified School District has been hauled into court twice this year by parents challenging how their children were evaluated, according to the Wall Street Journal. Jason Glass, superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District, told The California Post the district is experiencing an unprecedented wave of grade disputes. “We don’t have a district-wide count of grade appeals to share. That said, the volume of grade appeals we are experiencing now is greater than I have ever seen in my 8 years as a Superintendent,” Glass said. One dispute involves a third-grader’s playground behavior. The other centers on a high schooler’s English essay flagged by AI-detection software.

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