WHAT A DISSERVICE TO THEIR KIDS: Parents demand perfect report cards.

Parents are lawyering up to challenge a bad grade — or a teacher’s unflattering comment — on their child’s report card, reports Zusha Elinson in the Wall Street Journal.

In affluent Palo Alto, my daughter’s old district, one mother is suing because her third-grader’s report card said he needs to work on “cooperating with others.”

A Palo Alto father filed suit after AI-detection software flagged his 10th-grade son’s essay on The Crucible as “76% AI,” writes Elinson. The teacher “gave him a D on the retake, bringing his final grade down to a C.”

Takashi Kato, a Silicon Valley CEO, submitted a 1,162-page packet showing the sophomore’s “drafting and revision process,” and claimed detection software can be biased against non-native English writers. “He offered to accept a B to resolve the dispute,” writes Elinson. He dropped the suit in September. The district says there was no settlement.

Tried sitting down with your kids to help with the homework? Hiring a tutor?