[kearnyirish2]

Absolutely; also, if screening applicants, have them write out a couple of lines (about anything - just to get a feel for their literacy level).

In my younger days I was surprised to learn that people that speak ghetto write ghetto as well; it isn’t an “accent” - just poor English.

[Covenantor]

The NEA and AFT leadership from the very first days of their formation have been practicing a soft genocide with regard to America's black population. Until 1965, my HS graduation year in DC, Biden’s clean and articulate could be applied almost across the black school population. (and not surprisingly that was the about the time of the Berkley Free Speech Movement)..Any real thugs were shipped to reform schools, those on the bubble were transferred to vocational high schools for the opportunity to learn useful trades. Some of the strictest and best English teachers were black having achieved their educations in the forties and fifties through excellence, tough times for them.

Standard English, oral and written was the benchmark for all students. Sure, dialect came out in after school pick up sports but in class resulted in detention at best or a trip to the principal’s office.

It was a deliberate effort at distruction clothed in false concern and compassion. And we see the results today. Would be enlightening to compare prison demographics of pre-1965 and subsequent years. The results I suspect would be startling.

[Oatka]

In my younger days I was surprised to learn that people that speak ghetto write ghetto as well;

Ask them to write in cursive, or more diplomatically, "long hand".

Some years back, the liberals were pushing to allow "ghetto speak" as just another dialect, and graduate 'em anyway. (California, where else?)