Posted on 07/18/2005 10:25:14 AM PDT by 45Auto
In his mind you don't exist.
Mine was, "Jimmy have you ever seen a grown man naked"
I call it gaming the system. If it can be classified a "foreign language" it is eligible for extra grants, especially grants not based on "need". School districts are constantly gaming the system to get more money. The most desired employees are those with grantsmanship skills.
Follow the money.
Got to agree with you, it seems that women are the driving force behind the "feel good, relax, lets all get along at any cost mentality" that has taken over the schools nowadays.
I'm certain the KKK will support the decision to use Ebonics in schools.
My cousin lived in Hawaii. Private schools were paid for by her husband's job. I said, "Aren't you interested in having your kids in the local schools? (I was still a liberal). They can learn about the local culture." hahaha. She said, "No, they teach and speak pidgin English in them. I would NEVER put my kids in them." Sounds like California is going the same way.... Time to move.
Actually I lived right next to East Side High School - corner of New York Ave. and Pulaski Street. The nonsense I saw at Central was while I was at NJIT. Folks left Newark in 1965, so from the 5th grade on I was in Whippany.
I be be-in yor momma, I be be-in...let me axe you sumptin! How yo knowin dat!?
That kind of thinking has taken over the libs/ politics too. "Can't we just all get along?" NO, not unless they stop attacking us. Go whine at the muzzies .... It's in the churches too. Feel-good theology. (ok, dont get me started).
"I'm sorry, but I insist! I want a brain surgeon who has studied and speaks ebonics. If anyone is going to expose my brain pan (see Anne of Green Gables for reference!) and find out why I say "I be be-in" constantly, it must be a brother from the hood!"
And don't forget to wear your do-rag for the interview, and always preface each question with, "Let me axe you dis,....most employers really get excited by it!!
I wonder what's the word in Ebonics for 'pidgin English'?!
Yes. My late husband was a working class white guy who never knew any blacks until he went into the Army. He was from outside of Ann Arbor and his whole family would talk about the 'rich kids' going to UM, as if no one was there on scholarship or no one's parents sacrificed to send their kids there (as I ended up doing after he died).
I was truly shocked when he and his father came out in support of Jesse Jackson's run for president. Why? Because they thought the working man would finally 'get something' from the government if Jackson was president. Kinda sad.
Like your tag line.
Instead of trying to dumb down every kid to the lowest common denominator, how about we try teaching the stinkin' little gangster wannabes proper English. There's a novel idea.
The only way they would ever agree to that is if they could take all of OUR money with them.
Racist xenophobe. < /sarcasm >
At the rate we're going, it is the educated and literate who will be locked out of the society. The lunatics (translated liberals) and illegals will BE the society.
I believe they can succeed if trained properly.
Ebonics does not help them.
They want to speak Ebonics? Fine. But an adult must be prepared for the real world, and that includes good verbal and written communication skills.
I totally agree. I was simply disagreeing with the idea that these teachers are lazy. I don't think ideas like this are carried out through laziness or even evil (on the part of the teachers themselves, anyway).
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