We Be Teachin' Ebonics
Ebonics -- the ridiculous ghetto "slanguage" championed by Oakland's fool school district in the '90s -- could be poised for a comeback in San Bernardino.
"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe," said Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language."
Oddly, Texeira is half right: Students who don't speak English properly should all be taught the same way. Unfortunately, her Rx is wrong. What these students need is English-immersion classes.
Ebonics is the exact opposite of what California's ill-spoken black students need -- it's an official shove into the gutter. And who better to poison a new generation than the politically correct left? This is one game at which the sensitive socialists clearly excel.
"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe," said Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language."
Oddly, Texeira is half right: Students who don't speak English properly should all be taught the same way. Unfortunately, her Rx is wrong. What these students need is English-immersion classes.
Ebonics is the exact opposite of what California's ill-spoken black students need -- it's an official shove into the gutter. And who better to poison a new generation than the politically correct left? This is one game at which the sensitive socialists clearly excel.
posted by SF Sicko at 9:51 PM
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Congratulations. made our list of the 23 best Ebonics headlines. Keep up the good work. If not, it's not your fault!
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San Fran Sicko,
Perhaps you should consider taking some of those classes?
You sound like a complete and utter jackass who frankly, is the exact type that is holding our great country back.
Grow up.
SF Sicko:
I think the previous poster is giving you a bad rap. (ha, ha). OK, forget that. Can we get on your blogroll?
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