[vannrox]

My girlfriend is from Zambia. She speaks 14 languages plus English and French. She has a difficult time understanding Ebonics. She considers it stupid and gutteral; a language for the lower village classes. I.E. the enslaved illerate.

[Xenalyte]

You, my friend, have found yourself a pearl among women.

[Francohio]

Afrocentrists ... maintain that it is an act of disrespect for a white teacher to correct a black child. ...."

There is something inherently unequal in any teaching situation. The Teacher knows something the student doesn't. It takes a lot of social support for any person to accept that inequality, get around it, and learn what they need and WANT to learn. This is tough for students with culture-bound attitude problems.

A good teacher can play this inequality down and make the acquiring of the unknown a good experience. But it works both ways. The student has to put aside the inequality and attitude to accept what the teacher, good bad or indifferent is offering.