[45Auto]

Morons leading morons. This is worse than the bilingual nonsense that has plagued California schools for 30 years. Try getting a job when your first language is street slang.

[peacebaby]

This past weekend I witnessed the verbal abuse by a young black man of a store proprietor (who is Jamaican, I think). I couldn't understand a word the young black man said except the N word, the F word and a few damns in there. Oh, and "homey."

[NRA1995]

What's next, Hisponics?

[Kenton]

Oh swell. Another generation of black kids trained to stand sullenly behind the counter at the local Mickey D's, afraid to make eye contact or try to talk to a white person, because they only speak "ebonics" and are embarrased when they try and communicate outside of their own community.

Great way to keep 'em on the plantation, libs...

[Born Conservative]

[fortunecookie]

Try getting a job when your first language is street slang.

But therein lies the double sided beauty of this sociologist's idea. Either these illiterate, under educated youth can get affirmative action jobs funded by you and I or they can flip burgers and clean houses. Someone will be needed to do those irksome service jobs. (sarcasm intended) These youth and educators who buy into that crap don't even realize they are being doomed to a kind of servitude in the future. Just give them their 'rights' (rights to underachieve, to live on the dole) now. And then, in a generation or so, the sociologists and dem elected officials can lament on how to direct more tax dollars to help these folks, some of whom turn to crime when they find that they can't afford to live and there aren't enough affirmative action jobs and flipping burgers doesn't pay the bills, so...

[thoughtomator]

It's as if they want these kids to remain on the bottom rung of the social ladder.

Oh wait. They do.

[Trueblackman]

President Bush said it best...."soft bigotry of low expectations."

[TAquinas]

"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe,'"

So-called ebonics is neither a language or a dialect. It's an idiolect intended to distiquish blacks as different from the rest of the population.

I have no qualms about teaching black students in ebonics. If blacks want to ascend into the abyss of decadence, let them do so. It's their choice.

[rockabyebaby]

There are just soooo many things wrong with this, don't even know where to begin....can one get a job speaking ebonics???? I can see it now, let me ax my boss, geez, how stupid does that sound, I worked for the State of MA and we had a black guy who spoke ebonics, the rest of the office found it "refreshing", two of us found it offensive and ignorant, keep in mind this is LIBERAL Massachusetts so anything goes. We also had several immigrants answering the phones, a russian, an asian, one from Lebanon, one from Puerto Rico, one from Portugal, none of them spoke English, yet they got offended when they had to repeat themselves several times so they could be understood, (rolling eyes, shaking head in disgust!)

[PLK]

Tillman hoped the new policy would increase the number of black students going to college and participating in advanced courses.

Whatever. As a college professor, I will not even grade a paper that is not grammatically correct and written in an organized, logical fashion. They get returned, and until the student either cleans it up themself, or visits the writing center for assistance, their score is a zero.

[HereInTheHeartland]

This is sick, abusive, and very racist. (They can't learn because they live in the inner city and are minoritys)
Lets just give them crack, booze and porn while at it.

Standards should be increased, not decreased.

Everyone can learn if they are expected to, race has nothing to do with it. Expections do.

[Lil'freeper]

"This isn't a feel-good policy. This is the real thing,' Jacocks said.

Then lead by example: "Yo, b****, this aint no feel-good policy. Dis be da real thing, yo."

[Dogfaced Soldier]

They recently had the Miss USA Ebonics pageant - however they could only get 49 contestents since Miss Idaho was too embarrassed to compete.

[elbucko]

Morons leading morons.

That's for sure. Take this statement:

"She said a child's self confidence is tied to his or her cultural identity." [Texeira said]

Those of us who have had the good blessing of great parents know that a child's confidence comes from the self-esteem and discipline encouraged and learned at home. Not "culture".

These people have missed the problem even though its cause is getting on the bus with them. What the Kennedy-Johnson Administration did for the good of black Americans with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they took away with the Immigration Act of 1965. Blacks will be speaking Spanglish long before they will have a chance to learn American English.

[NorseWood]

Are they going to translate the Constitution of the United States in Ebonics? Will out voter's ballots now be in Ebonics, too, besides Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.?

[the invisib1e hand]

this is too freaking weird to even be funny.

I don't even think it's real.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is too freaking weird to even be funny.

I don't even think it's real.

[Tacis]

If it will will little Tyrone-Darnel or LaQuisha-Shanequa do better competing with Jesus and Maria at the curb-side labor shape up in the morning, I'm for it.

Of course, imagine how much help an Ebonics education will be in supporting suits for racial discrimination. "They wouldn't me because Ebonics is my primary, native language," and since, "most Ebonics users are black, they wouldn't hire me because I am black!" Pay up!!

[Physicist]

Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative

Outstanding! But how do you say that in Ebonics?

[Unknown Freeper]

for later