Ebonics In School. - WHY!!

Okay, I replied to an entry on Black Informant about how one school district says its ok to use Ebonics in school ... I guess they only mean Speach-wise, because Teaching it wouldn't do too great..

Read the Full Entry here

There's a video there that's basically the opposite "teaching proper English"...
I replied to this entry with ...

There is NO SUCH THING as PROPER English, there is STANDARD english…

I’d rather take an “Ax or Ask” class …

Teaching “ebonics” will make the children dumber because every bodies slang and aren’t the same,

they tried it before in N.O in 1994-95 where they tried to make us learn random slang from California. I was in 4th grade that year.

in New Orleans we stay things like this

“O-Mike, I’m Goin’ to da sto’-yeh, You Comin’”..

“O” is to get the persons attention

at this point’ im telling you what im about to do

“yeh” is to let you know that its a fact

and then Im asking you if you’ll come ..

kinda like saying “Hey mike, I’m on my way to the store, would you like to come?”

LOL …

Listen to our politicians then never use standard English .. they use Big words and Gibberish to explain what they’re doing ..lol

.. In light of this, I always talk to My Crab sister about issues like this.
its a fact that we all need to speak standard english so that everybody can understand somebody. slang or Home-Known words cant get youby everywhere. I noticed that when i was in Houston. I had to Refrain from using terms that only New Orleans people would recognize. such as "Cold Drank" when they'd say "soda water" ... simple things like that. After talking to Ashley about that, we said How about saying "Carbonated Beverage" and hopefully people would understand. .. I hope yall know what i'm talking about ..lol

I love talking about it because I know that I dont speak correctly
in General, people who Articulate when they pronounce their words are said to talk "Proper" when thats not necessarily proper either.

Same as American Standard English vs the English of The U.K. or Australia.

I'm gonna post that link on facebook to see if it gets more replies.


other than that, y'all don't know how many typo's i fixed in this post ..lol (many i haven't and wont fix either)

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