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Ebonics suggested for San Bernardino district black students
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Posted by Frank G 2005-07-18 15:05|| || Front Page|| [10327 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 this is the lowest form of lowered expectations and racism

It certainly be.
Posted by BH 2005-07-18 15:25||   2005-07-18 15:25|| Front Page Top

#2 A pilot of the policy, known as the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative, has been implemented at two city schools.

Ahh, I knew there had to be a reason for such an unwieldy title for the policy - Joanne Jacobs reports that sankofa is a Ghanaian word that means "remembering the past". I wonder what the Ghanaian word is for "making sh*t up".
Posted by BH 2005-07-18 15:29||   2005-07-18 15:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The Left will do anything to keep black children uneducated so they'll have someone to vote for them in future generations.

They are beneath contempt.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-07-18 15:30||   2005-07-18 15:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Although the program is aimed at black students, other students can choose to participate.

Like, yo, lot of the white kids I know already be down wit it. Know what I'm saying?
Posted by tu3031 2005-07-18 15:30||   2005-07-18 15:30|| Front Page Top

#5 The future of AAVE Ebonics Graduates:
I tinkin' be flippin' burgers, biatches.

Are the fuckwit spastic hand gestures a new Ebony Sign Language, too?
Posted by .com 2005-07-18 15:44||   2005-07-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..."

Huh? Wha'dat?
Posted by .Speakin Be Hard Barbonics Graduate 2005-07-18 15:48||   2005-07-18 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 It's totally like a bummer.
Posted by 2b 2005-07-18 15:59||   2005-07-18 15:59|| Front Page Top

#8 If blacks ever figure out what the liberal establishment has been doing to them, there's gonna be Democrats hanging from lamp posts all across America.

Republicans consider blacks citizens, and want them to act like it. Democrats consider them niggers-- not to be lynched, like Democrats used to do, but to be kept shoeless, clueless, and obedient.

I be pissed.
Posted by Dave D. 2005-07-18 15:59||   2005-07-18 15:59|| Front Page Top

#9 A "sociologist"? This worthless idiot STILL thinks that peddling this feel-good, do-nothing bullshit is going to get results? Quite frankly, pouring any more money into the California public school system would be a stupid thing to do, as long as dumbasses like Ms. Texiera have any kind of input in what the curriculum is going to be.


Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-18 16:07||   2005-07-18 16:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Agreed, Dave - though I don't think the Dems would mind too much if Republican blacks got lynched.

Since they're not really black, anyway.... :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-07-18 16:22||   2005-07-18 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 "For many of these students Ebonics is their language.” That’s all well and good but when if you someday want to move out of the ghetto and into REGULAR society you will have to learn ENGLISH. This thinking is totally counter to what we know about language, assimilation, and success. Most ethnic groups get ahead in this country by learning English and attending higher education, which creates success. I don’t care what this idiot says it’s not a language it’s slang English. All they will do by teaching this “language” is sentencing these kids to a life of sub par performance. They are not going to do well on job interviews and they are not going to go far beyond their “Ebonic” world. But they Liberals don’t want them off the plantation so they are going to hobble them so they can’t go to far.
Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge  2005-07-18 17:38||   2005-07-18 17:38|| Front Page Top

#12 And, of course, *nobody* suggests that these kids get intensive language therapy, both written and oral, to include pronounciation and enunciation. Because it would be *intolerable* if they were able to speak and be understood like the educated white sociologists who are so superior to them. I mean this in the strongest of terms, as evidenced by the *insistence* of many "educators" that these children be taught English with the proven-to-be-utterly-useless "whole language" methodology, rather than the proven-to-be-effective phonetic methodology. What do you call people so devoid of pattern recognition that they cannot accept the notion that something *does* *not* *work* after 50 years? I mean, other than democrats.
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-18 18:04||   2005-07-18 18:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Anoy,

Oh I'm sure the Democrats know full well that this type of shait doesn't work.

Thats the whole point!

They dont want these poor kids to have a real chance of throwing of the welfare (and Democratic Party) dependancy. They would rather have them barefoot and poor (but able to vote DNC!).
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-18 18:37||   2005-07-18 18:37|| Front Page Top

#14 In Italy, there are a score of dialects that are so distinct, that the speakers have avery difficult time understanding one another; thus, they teach the Tuscan dialect in the public school system to achieve nation-wide linguistic parity. It works. Too bad we're following in the footsteps of Canada. (Sociologists make me poo.). :>(

Posted by Armchair in Sin">Armchair in Sin  2005-07-18 18:39||   2005-07-18 18:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Do they teach Cockney in schools around London?
Posted by Thromoling Jerenter6930 2005-07-18 18:45||   2005-07-18 18:45|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm reminded of the buddhist proverb - You can do anything you want, as long as you know how not to do it. The reality is speaking/writing comprehensible standard english has substantial economic value. Failure to acquire that skill results in substantial economic cost to both the individual and society.
Posted by phil_b 2005-07-18 18:54||   2005-07-18 18:54|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't want to think about what they teach kids in state schools in London...

The first time I heard about 'Ebonics' was on a South Park episode (I know, I know...) and I thought they were taking the piss.

I turns out, depressingly, that they aren't.

Barbara - spot on and Dave D. - we can only hope.

An finally, 'scuse my french, but *DAMN!* these people for wanting to keep these kids as an underclass their whole lives. Bastards.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-18 18:58||   2005-07-18 18:58|| Front Page Top

#18 Which should of course say 'And finally..'

Yes, I know you don't start a sentence with 'And' ;)
Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-18 18:59||   2005-07-18 18:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Like I needed more evidence why my children will not be a part of the California Public School system. The people who push this are cretins. They are focused on their own power base, one that is dependent on keeping black Americans a distinct and persistent underclass. We need only look at the results of the 1960's Great Society programs and today's illegitimacy rate of more than 70% in the black community to see the handiwork of these bastards.
Posted by remoteman 2005-07-18 19:05||   2005-07-18 19:05|| Front Page Top

#20 my kids attend public school and they're fine - you have to be attentive and don't put up with the fad du jour. Demand the teachers stick to the subjects and avoid indoctrination. Demand competent teachers. Think of it as a mission. Only had one problem ....I won
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-07-18 19:10||   2005-07-18 19:10|| Front Page Top

#21 Starting a sentence with 'And, finally' is an acceptable way of adding emphasis to a concluding point. English is a usage driven language. If people do it and the meaning is clear, then modern style gurus say its acceptable. Consult the Chicago Manual of Style.
Posted by phil_b 2005-07-18 19:12||   2005-07-18 19:12|| Front Page Top

#22 :-)
A girl in obvious rural clothing gets on the school bus for the first day of school.
She sits next to a pretty debutante and asks her: "where are you from?"
The deb answers: "I'm from a place that teaches you that you don't end a sentence with a preposition..."
The little rural girl thinks on that rebuke and tries again: "where are you from,.... bitch?"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-07-18 19:17||   2005-07-18 19:17|| Front Page Top

#23 LOL
Posted by Dave D. 2005-07-18 19:21||   2005-07-18 19:21|| Front Page Top

#24 watn rong wiht ebonix?
Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-18 19:26|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-18 19:26|| Front Page Top

#25 Think of San Bernardino County as L.A.'s (much) larger and less-successful sibling. We're influenced by them; we hire their school administrators, copy their curriculum and practices. In some cases, our bordering school districts become their (and Riverside County's) dumping grounds for low-performance students.

Factor in San Bernardino as a long-standing mess, and none of this is surprising.
Posted by Pappy 2005-07-18 19:34||   2005-07-18 19:34|| Front Page Top

#26 Good for you Frank G!

I stand corrected phil_b ;)
Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-18 19:35||   2005-07-18 19:35|| Front Page Top

#27 I think the way Churchill put it was "This is an idea up with which I will not put."
Posted by Matt 2005-07-18 19:57||   2005-07-18 19:57|| Front Page Top

#28 What do you call people so devoid of pattern recognition that they cannot accept the notion that something *does* *not* *work* after 50 years? I mean, other than democrats.

Dey be libruls.
Posted by AzCat 2005-07-18 21:00||   2005-07-18 21:00|| Front Page Top

#29 Don't get me started on sociologists. The two I had as professors in college were Marxists obsessed with race, class, and especially deviance as an exercise in moral equivalence. I got A's by telling them what they wanted to hear on tests, but I felt dirty from the experience. I'd invite a Muslim or Clinton or Kennedy or Kerry to dinner at my house before I'd invite a sociologist.
Posted by Neutron Tom 2005-07-18 21:07||   2005-07-18 21:07|| Front Page Top

#30 #24: watn rong wiht ebonix?

Nufn tol mukky itn bad mofo baaaad witchn meen gud n whty tawk wiht lik pidgn tu ebonix foks.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2005-07-18 21:28||   2005-07-18 21:28|| Front Page Top

#31 Time to put this district under the control of the State Superintendent of Schools. Oakland already is since it has failed to meet any and every requirement the state specified for student performance. Oh and they are bankrupt too. This district is headed down the same path. Good luck.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-07-18 23:08||   2005-07-18 23:08|| Front Page Top

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