Jones (?) posted;
Another case in point (the point being the humorous irrationality
of life): it was nearly ten years ago now that the Oakland School
Board ruled unanimously to teach Ebonics (which some argue is a
dialect of English spoken by some African-Americans) in school as a
second language, then backed off. My neighbor at the time in
Berkeley was a 25 year old recent Cal grad, liberal Jewish
(actually a "Ju-Bu" formerly Jewish turned Buddhist
You're right, teaching any children in eubonics is tantamount to
child abuse. The black American Academic Robert Sowell was
interviewed by Dennis Prager. He makes the case that the Puritan
Englishmen, from northern England, who settled America spoke a
English differently than did did their southern brothers, Hence the
different accents. Sowell contents that the northerners spoke English
correctly.
As Dennis says, teaching anyone Eubonics is an idea that is so stupid
that you need at least a graduate degree in order to believe it.
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