Posted on 08/12/2016 3:43:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Some middle school students in Georgia got a lesson in slang from the streets this week and some parents are not pleased.
WSAV-TV is reporting a class at Godley Station School got quizzed on words like punked, popo, true dat and bling bling.
A parent posted the quiz online and now many are questioning what arrived on the desks of some Savannah-Chatham students this week.
Labeled as Geography Jumpstart, the instructions of the worksheet called for the middle school class to define words like yo, dog, punked, popo, sportin and bling-bling based on the context of sentences provided.
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Want to bet they weren’t quizzed on words like: work, study, honesty, patriotism?
I thought that “popo” was baby talk for buttocks.
There’re just teaching them ebonics so Jamal and L’Trisha won’t feel marginalized.
The government schools are a toxic middle-class welfare entitlement. It would be better to take Food Stamps than to institutionalize your children in “free” government schools.
Never mind “family”, “God”, “Jesus”, “prayer”, “morality” and the like.
“Every good Chinese kid knows that popo means grandma.’
Unless they speak Shanghainese and then “Bobo” is Grandma
Shanghaiese???
I thought that there were two major dialects of the Chinese language, Mandarin and Cantonese. Does Shanghai have its own dialect or language too???
Did they ask for the meaning of “Mofo”? That’s one I want to see.
Immersion in cultural anthropology before these middle schoolers move to the upper grades where they might not otherwise know the lingo?
What? They’re not ignorant enough on their own? They need to reinforce non-English slang and gutter speak?
>All education should be defunded and privatized.
And paid for, upon their use, like EVERY OTHER *SERVICE*.
What else is paid in perpetuity, regardless of ‘outcome’ or ‘cost’, that can only be utilized for ~12 yrs.?!
Sounds racist to me.
What about “Grand Wizard”?
Fuzz was the 70s wasn’t it?
This is par for the course when parents name their little girl “L-a”. Sounded out is Ladasha. No, I am not kidding.
Day jess keepin’ it real, dawg.
How about gibsmedat?
Funny thing about slanguage by the time it gets into common usage it’s normally not in use any more.
About 80 million people speak Shanghai-wa or the Shanghai dialect. Mandarin is the national language but, Cantonese, Fujinese, Shanghai, and Hakka are some of the other dialects.
My polyglot wife’s family is from Shanghai. She speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese and Hakka as well as English and some Japanese
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