Ebonics suggested for district

San Bernardino County Sun ^ | 17 July 2005 | Irma Lemus

[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.

[BurbankKarl]

Deporting the illegals would work too.

[TheForceOfOne]

Say it ain't be, damn.

[NonValueAdded]

God help them all ... the real agenda is dumbing down the curriculum until test scores improve and the pressure comes off the teachers. Their SANKOFAI program is really SACKOS***

[mlc9852]

LOL - yeah, this is just what underachieving students need. That will get them on the fast track in the corporate world! Well, maybe they can all just be rappers!

[KarlInOhio]

Just trying to teach the students so they can do the jobs even illegal immigrants won't do.

[softwarecreator]

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.  =)

[martin_fierro]

BOO GOT SHOT! BOO GOT SHOT!

[Publius6961]

What's the problem?

When they "graduate", they can just get well-paying jobs on basketball teams, rap groups and international businesses epecializing in African trade.

[JeeperFreeper]

Conjugate the verb "to be".

I be We be
You be Y'all be
He/she be They be

[TChris]

Sheesh. Another member joins up with the Stupid Old Ideas That Failed Miserably club.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Chris Dodd has a plan in Connecticut for these underprivileged kids.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"Blacks make up the second largest racial group in the district, trailing Latinos."

Teaching Spanish would be more successful than Ebonics.

[Fierce Allegiance]

It's not a valid language, it's a working-class vernacular.

Corrected It's not a valid language, it's a Non-working-class vernacular.

[mozrock]

LMAO....I was holding back! =)

This is just absolutely ridiculous! And to recognize ebonics as "another language" and "not just slang" is completely insane! WOW!!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

The language of success is English. Subjecting these children to an Ebonic curriculum will drag them down further--a form of child abuse.

[Old Professer]

All high schools recoil in terror at the prospect of wholesale drop-out rates because they lose funding status and are now thwarting the NCLB if they don't devise some way short of seat belts in the classrooms to keep these jackasses in their chairs.