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Posted on 03/04/2026 12:17:34 PM PST by karpov
If you saw the 2004 Pixar hit The Incredibles, you might remember that Mr. Incredible, a.k.a. Bob, captures in one line the reason our schools are failing. Resisting his wife’s plea that Bob attend his son’s “graduation” from fourth grade, Bob growls, “We keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity!”
Today’s remake of that film would have Bob growl, “We keep creating new ways to celebrate illiteracy!” because the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is pressuring teachers and professors to drop the requirement that students learn to speak and write Standard American English.
Unfortunately, the NCTE is having some success.
That directive is a byproduct of the NCTE’s 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), whose delegates demanded that
"Teachers stop using academic language and standard English as the accepted communicative norm, which reflects White Mainstream English!"
and that
"Teachers develop and teach Black Linguistic Consciousness that works to decolonize the mind (and/or) language, unlearn white supremacy, and unravel anti-Black linguistic racism!"
In short, delegates to that conference “DEMAND[ed] Black Linguistic Justice.”
If you thought that academe’s social-justice warriors would retreat in 2025, you will be disheartened to hear what just happened at the Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU).
If you thought academe’s social-justice warriors would retreat, you will be disheartened to hear what just happened at MSU.
In compliance with the CCCC’s 2020 resolution, in December MSU’s Writing Center redefined Standard American English as “a social construct that privileges white communities and maintains social and racial hierarchies.” The writing center’s new policy urges students to “us[e] their English (whatever that may be) in communicating their thoughts and ideas.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
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Leftism is a social construct that has colonized many universities and other institutions.
Leftism is of satan.
students subjected to that kind of instruction will be permanently disadvantaged. perfect candidates for lifelong welfare recipients and dependency on the leftist political elite. dependency breeds compliance, they’ll vote DNC
Soon we can all say “Stewardess, I speak jive!” (except you might get in trouble for the ‘stewardess’ part).
Because an illiterate populace is much easier to rule over. This has always been a part of the communist’s goals.
That’s true.
Wouldn’t that be, “Bi-—, I speak jive”?
Is it because the teachers themselves are illiterate?
Fer shizzle?
They can’t teach it. Because, they can’t speak it.
Wow, what a great new idea! We could call it "Ebonics"!
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