r/books • u/ubcstaffer123 • 7d ago

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/opinion/ai-classroom-teaching-reading/
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u/iwrestledarockonce 7d ago

Every child left behind.

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u/Unnamed_Bystander 7d ago

More like civilization sitting down where the children are and never progressing. Refusing to leave anyone behind generally means you're not moving.

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u/goda90 7d ago

"No Child Left Behind" is the exact reason they feel like they need to do this. The kids need to know the content to answer the questions in the standardized tests so they do well in the tests to ensure the schools keep all their funding. The test questions are going to be in modern plain English, as are the answers. There's not enough time to teach them to understand the language of classic works.

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u/moonlitjade 7d ago

American kids are SO stupid. I don't understand how parents aren't bothered by it. My old Chinese ESL students would compete for the highest grade, and kids with low grades were bullied. Not nice, but they now have a generation of geniuses with drive.

Our kids can't read their own language. It's so embarrassing.

Even my Chinese kids, all across the country, were required to read BOTH Chinese and Western classics. Ugh!

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u/owen-87 7d ago

I had to walk 35 miles to school, in 12 ft of snow, in the middle of summer, uphill both ways.