[bjorn14]

Wasn’t this the case where we first learned of ‘micro aggression’?

[ExCTCitizen]

Spelling and grammar corrections are racist acts? I guess if you want to spell cat ‘katt’ or write ‘Him and I gone to the strip joint’, you should if you are black.

[NonValueAdded]

we don't need no education ...

[Red Badger]

[TBP]

We can’t have black kids spelling properly and using good grammar. They might get out of the ghetto. We must not allow that.

Anyone who supports that is obviously racist.

[wildbill]

Some years back I taught writing, English as A Second Language (ESL) and Freshman English courses in a large state University in Texas. The evidence of the collapse of our educational system among all races (except the Asians) was all around.

White students from ‘good’ school districts weren’t taught basic grammar or spelling because phonics and the mushy ‘write what you feel and don’t worry about technical competence’ was the in-thing in educational circles. One senior tenured professor encouraged black students to write in Ebonics as a substitute for standard English as it was their cultural identity. Apparently cultural identity trumped any attention to preparing these students for work in the real world outside the college.

And the Administration imported professors whose claim to fame was ‘deconstruction theory’ where the meaning of words as set down by an author wasn’t to be based on some standard definition, but could be determined by the reader as he/she ‘experienced’ the text.

When liberal folks call for more money for education in order to rescue the students, I have to laugh. Students got more and better education in one room schoolhouses than in all the huge bricks and mortar universities filled with computer equipment.

[YourAdHere]

Ah don’t feel no ways tared.

[Lexington Green]

It used to be a crime to teach slaves to read. Helps keep ‘em on the plantation.

[exit82]

According to Kenjus Watson, the organizer of the sit-in,

Kenjus want to do whatever she wants to do.

[bk1000]

Why is it “Student of Color”, and “white female student”? Isn’t that a “microaggression”?

[Tigerized]

Wow! The next thing you know, they won’t be able to read or write cursive...

Oh. Wait...

[jmcenanly]

How is this student writing term papers? Microsoft Word automatically proofreads documents. Unless these are answers on a written test, in which case the professor may not have been able to understand them. I doubt that any hiring staff evil be able to read anything that the student writes either.

[Organic Panic]

Why isn't KENJUS complaining about the racist treatment of the teachers in her public schools that pumped our her dumb arse? Why is a college professor having to correct simple grammar and punctuation mistakes? Why are you so stupid and uneducated YET in college when you don't know what is capitalized. Kensus' little brain must smoke when faced with two too to or there their they're. Idiot should go back to basics and learn proper English.

[DaveyB]

Was da ding in cursive? Dats be racist cuz bros don’t cursive!

[Purdue77]

My wife and I had a run-in with my step-son's English teacher when he was in middle school in Maryland. In order to not stifle the students' creativity, they weren't taught spelling, punctuation, or capitalization, but were graded only on creativity. Topic sentences weren't necessary. Just write what ever the student felt. This was a middle school English class and not creative writing. So it not be just "students of color" who ain't learned properly.

By the way, I can't diagram a sentence either and I was in school in the '60s. Not that I didn't learn, I just didn't care.