A US school district banned AI for students weeks after adopting it.
The school board of Frederick County, Maryland voted 6-1 on 7 October to ban student AI use in every grade. The district had begun piloting Google's Gemini chatbot with older students only in September. Lessons about AI and students with disabilities are exempt, and the board president calls it a pause.
Why it mattersThe district teaches about 48,000 students, and every Maryland school system must now write an AI policy. Parents and teachers elsewhere will soon face the same choice.
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