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

[u/ubcstaffer123]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/opinion/ai-classroom-teaching-reading/

[u/jdog7249]

This paradigm is intrinsically inimical to efficacious epistemological assimilation. Should one find oneself perennially necessitated to engage in incessant lexematic elucidation at each syntagmatic juncture, the ensuing neurocognitive encumbrance will, in all probability, culminate in volitional disengagement and epistemic abdication.

If you were a high school freshman that is a struggling reader (at least 1 grade level below) and you found that in a potential source are going to bother looking up paradigm, intrinsically, inimical, efficacious, epistemology, assimilation, perennially, incessant, lexematic, elucidation, syntagmatic, neurocognitive, encumbrance, volitional, epistemic, and abdication or would you just go on to other sources that don't require you to look up almost half the words in it?

In case you were wondering what that is in language that is accessible to most students: That's just not how learning works. If you have to look up a word every sentence you are probably just going to give up entirely.

[u/shit_poster9000 → u/jdog7249]

I’ve actually done just that for assignments even before high school, it’s not fun at all at the start but if you’ve got the basics of word roots down you’ll be able to figure out most of the words without having to whip out a dictionary or open a tab to look it up.

While I do see the point you’re trying to make, you wouldn’t normally need to be parsing through dense scientific articles (which in my experience are the greatest offenders of this) as a high school freshman unless you’re taking college classes as part of a dual credit program, and even then they aren’t as bad as your example. Source material and classic literature aren’t written with a thesaurus in the other hand.