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2017-04-09 Science & Technology
Teachers Should Allow Ebonics Because English Grammar Is Too Hard For Minorities To Learn
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-09 04:51|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 I am told in our local prison systems corrections officers must learn to communicate or understand Ebonics. Inmates many of whom cannot read or write most likely speak the language of their home world (yea, like a restroom :)). Repeat offenders going back to their world only to return later. Locals fear families will move to this area to be close but I suspect most do not have conventional family units. Prisons are located in rural areas because locals need jobs. Real reason is land development. You wouldn't build a $600,000 dollar home next to prison systems (yes, escapes do occur even Alcatraz had three escapes who lived).
Posted by Dale 2017-04-09 06:26||   2017-04-09 06:26|| Front Page Top

#2 To avoid any hurt feelings..

and there we have the canonical excuse of progressives for any failures.
Posted by AlanC 2017-04-09 07:52||   2017-04-09 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Take it up with the NEA and the teachers unions.

Amazing isn't it how Vietnamese who spoke no English so quickly assimilated into America after the boat lift resettlement?
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-09 08:01||   2017-04-09 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English.

That is about the most racists argument I have ever heard and belongs back in the 1920s where it should have died with a stake through its heart.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-09 09:28||   2017-04-09 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Dims cain't let 'em of DA plantation. Pardon mi spellins.
Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-04-09 10:22||   2017-04-09 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Grammer be Hard.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-04-09 11:37||   2017-04-09 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English

Too stupid to be bilingual, unlike Hispanics -- the other special group.

When presented as two different languages/dialects instead of correct and incorrect -- the proper linguistic approach -- and giving the advantage of being able to move between social groups while fitting in with each, the skill becomes a matter of pride rather than an insult -- a thought that clearly has not occurred to our ignorant, bigotted researcher. I've successfully sold the idea of mastering two different ways of speaking, dressing, and table manners in this way -- and my young friends have successfully applied the skills they acquired, while quietly pitying me for having only one set.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-09 12:21||   2017-04-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Show a little sympathy, you bastages. I felt totally oppressed having to learn the white man's COBOL.
Posted by SteveS 2017-04-09 12:21||   2017-04-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm always amazed when people, in the name of equality, insist that certain races should be held to a lower standard.
Posted by AuburnTom 2017-04-09 13:15||   2017-04-09 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Teachers should set high standards and not listen to ignorant researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Posted by Glirt Glick3831 2017-04-09 13:40||   2017-04-09 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 The Bigotyr of low expectations.
Posted by Newc 2017-04-09 15:11||   2017-04-09 15:11|| Front Page Top

#12 SteveS do't forget that COBOL is sexist because in COBOL as in life one must keep track of one's periods.
Posted by AlanC 2017-04-09 15:14||   2017-04-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#13 The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English". Everyone of them paid attention in school and it really set me back and made me think. When I was in high school most of the blacks would never bring a book or a pen or a pencil. They sat in the back, never turned in homework or took tests. They were given a complimentary D- or a 1.0. In 1963 Johnson signed Kennedy's civil rights bill which gave blacks priority over all other races in college admissions. The professions were flooded with blacks and were allowed to go to medical school under the 1.0 program. All they had to do was attend 80% of the classes to get passed on every year. They did their pre-med with a 1.0 and went to medical school with a 1,0 and white students with an A- to A+ average were unable to attend the schools because the 1.0 blacks had a large number of seats in the classes. They didn't have to take state boards, they were given licenses. It wasn't until about ten years later a white student named Bakke who had been discriminated against finally got to the Supreme Court of the United States who ruled in his favor in that he had been discriminated against (reverse discrimination). Since the blacks had no knowledge to heal, fix teeth, argue law, take care of pets or any other thing based upon the courses they attended most became Dr. Feel Goods and had their licenses pulled with a few years.
Posted by Ho Chi Ulolutch7127 2017-04-09 17:05||   2017-04-09 17:05|| Front Page Top

#14 I feel the same way SteveS. PL/1 forever!
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-04-09 18:30||   2017-04-09 18:30|| Front Page Top

#15 The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English".

Yes, in addition to English, many speak their native dialect (Zulu, Zhosa, etc), and Afrikaans. Kaap (Cape) blacks and mixed folks speak a local tribal variant of English and Afrikaans.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-09 19:02||   2017-04-09 19:02|| Front Page Top

#16 COBOL was created by a woman.
Posted by Herman Clager2485 2017-04-09 20:06||   2017-04-09 20:06|| Front Page Top

#17 "members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English"

Wotta crocka bullshit.
Posted by Barbara 2017-04-09 20:17||   2017-04-09 20:17|| Front Page Top

#18 COBOL was created by a woman.

That explains the need to watch your periods....
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-04-09 21:09||   2017-04-09 21:09|| Front Page Top

#19 
PL/1 forever!


*shudder*

I'd go back to Perl before I went back to that.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-04-09 21:24||   2017-04-09 21:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Rob, whatcha talking about? PL/1 can do anything. You need it, it's in there. Probably twice.
Posted by KBK 2017-04-09 22:13||   2017-04-09 22:13|| Front Page Top

#21 I was looking for the Rosetta Stone course in Eubonics, but couldn't find it.
Posted by KBK 2017-04-09 22:15||   2017-04-09 22:15|| Front Page Top

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