Post #1501166

2026-03-12 13:42 UTC

Speaking of disservice to kids in school, I recently learned about the “Three-Cuing” system and how it is basically making kids less literate by having them simply guess the meaning of things they don’t understand instead of teaching how to read context, subtext, and use critical thinking skills or basic phonics.. It kinda pissed me off. Especislly since I had already been noticing a trend of young people online putting words into others’ mouths or defining words wildly differently than the norm and misunderstanding the entire thing they just read.

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@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2026-03-12 13:55

I heard about this too, and it’s so insane. I saw an article recently about Mississippi (and/or Alabama?) 4th graders beating out California and New York on reading, and many were crediting that the state mandated phonics over this “take a guess” nonsense.

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@orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-12 14:13

Your logic is very aesthetic.

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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-03-12 14:34

That was a right wing grift, that is thankfully finally being phased out of most schools.

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 14:52

“Three-Cuing” system Huh. Apparently Georgia banned it last year, with a bipartisan bill that my (D) state senator co-sponsored. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!

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@Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 16:18

… Suddenly I think I understand why a some things with very specific meanings are getting redefined by younger folks who call you names if you don’t accept their new definition.

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@sinadia@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 17:26

I have a theory that the people who think having Ai make a summary of books were taught ‘three-cuing’ and thus, cannot actually read. Incidentally there’s a really interesting podcast about teaching reading in the US, called ‘Sold a Story’. It’s wild how kids were supposed to somehow magic up the meaning of words.

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