result #77677 - DO YOU THINK THE SCHOOLS TEACHING EBONICS IS A SIGN OF "DUMBING DOWN" OUR SCHOOLS?

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DO YOU THINK THE SCHOOLS TEACHING EBONICS IS A SIGN OF "DUMBING DOWN" OUR SCHOOLS?


[+] ballot by everygirl
created Tue Jul 19, 05
Do you think we are dumbing down our schools & in the long run our society by doing things like teaching Ebonics?

yes, I do 23
Yebba I ba do ba 5
schools don't teach ebonics 4
no, it's needed 2
It be da symptum 2

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I'd like to hear their rationale -- if this is real, it seems very probably to be a misdirected effort, akin to teaching bad grammar and enunciation.

Have to admit ... I find it hard to believe, though.

by Cathexis on Tue Jul 19, 05 1:35pm [+]

Yo man thats whack E. I be thinkin them dogs gots thems head up their ass. Yo word up.
by VanHelsing on Tue Jul 19, 05 1:41pm [+]

*shakes head and walks away..sadly*
by Tadema on Tue Jul 19, 05 1:44pm [+]

Yeah I know cathexis hard to believe, but they did a write up about it in the daily San Bernadio Sun, interviewed some of the teachers & everything so it seems to be something that have put into motion.
by everygirl on Tue Jul 19, 05 1:50pm [+]

Did you know that in 1996 the school board of Oakland Ca actually officially recognized Ebonics as a seperate language? (true)
by everygirl on Tue Jul 19, 05 2:03pm [+]

School curriculums have been dumbing down for years, stressing kids' ability to take tests rather than actually teaching math and science, in which we're lagging far behind. And show me a place where Ebonics might actually be of use in the real world.
by Truthseeker013 on Tue Jul 19, 05 2:19pm [+]

I think you can get a doctorite in Ebonics from Berkeley :-D
by ceejjj on Tue Jul 19, 05 2:21pm [+]

What's da world coming ta. It'shard ta believe, I find it very disturbing. you know das right! I spect it time to ebonify dis whack site.
by elvislennon on Tue Jul 19, 05 3:16pm [+]

they're just doing it in case they offend blacks by not doing it.
by Preparation_H on Tue Jul 19, 05 3:50pm [+]

Very definately. American students graduate unable to read, so what's the solution? Teach improper english!

Of course any kid who chooses to take ebonics probably didn't have any future anyway, but they shouldn't encourage idiots.
by herzog on Tue Jul 19, 05 6:32pm [+]

Where,..no...who is teaching Ebonics? You can't be serious.
by Freon on Tue Jul 19, 05 8:39pm [+]

Ya'll muthafukkas be trippin. Ebonicical communications be critical fo advancementation in a work place sitiation, ya feel me. Shiiit bitch I got Yale axin me to teach ebonification courses, but I be tellin them bitch ass niggas to raise up off my nuts.
by lowerclassbrats on Tue Jul 19, 05 11:16pm [+]

one kooky teacher in one kooky place suggests this, fox news picks it up and runs with it. next thing i hear all the right wing nut cases want to close all the schools.
by weebles48 on Thu Aug 11, 05 3:36pm [+]

What close all schools? I don't think the right wingers are nuts here dude.
by everygirl on Wed Aug 17, 05 1:05pm [+]

I know that it Maya Angelou used to get really pissed about the concept of teaching in Ebonics.
by Psycho_Frighead on Wed May 03, 06 2:34pm [+]






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