Ebonics

[leftyman]

?We need to embrace the diversity they bring into our schools,? said the district?s Chief of Diversity and Leadership, Michele Hancock.

Yo, Da Rochester City School District be whack ya hear?

Word

Interestingly enough, the students interviewed in the story dont approve..

 

[mobobuff]

Reverse education?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I'm all for it. It'll let us more easily identify and ignore those who will be spending the rest of their lives pumping gas, bagging groceries, or changing oil at Jiffy Lube, and instead concentrate on the students who can go somewhere.

- M4H

 

[rivan]

The end is nigh.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I'm all for it. It'll let us more easily identify and ignore those who will be spending the rest of their lives pumping gas, bagging groceries, or changing oil at Jiffy Lube, and instead concentrate on the students who can go somewhere.

- M4H

Except the No Child Left Behind act forces teachers to focus on those students, often at the expense of the ones that do apply themselves.

 

[JS80]

who can tell me what "drop it like it's hot" means?

 

[Dead3ye]

Ebonics is not a language. It's a statement. Pretty soom nobody in this country will be able to understand each other.

"Would like your driver's license application in English, Spanish, Ebonics, Yiddish, Arabic, etc?"

It's getting out of hand.

 

[R Nilla]

only if "No, I be concubining" is a mandatory part of the curriculum.

 

[Darkstar757]

This is nuts, teachers should not be teaching ebonics. The people who dream up this sh*t should be shot! All this does is further stereotypes and I am sorry as a American, American students should write and speak proper English. No exceptions!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: JS80
who can tell me what "drop it like it's hot" means?

It means, 'I strongly suggest you leave that, as if it were something almost too hot to hold, such as a baked potato that has just come from the oven.'.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Dead3ye
Ebonics is not a language. It's a statement. Pretty soom nobody in this country will be able to understand each other.

"Would like your driver's license application in English, Spanish, Ebonics, Yiddish, Arabic, etc?"

It's getting out of hand.

We should start teaching 13375p33|<, txting and teh intarweb next.

 

[meltdown75]

and this relates to the suburbs because...

 

[Dead3ye]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: JS80
who can tell me what "drop it like it's hot" means?

It means, 'I strongly suggest you leave that, as if it were something almost too hot to hold, such as a baked potato that has just come from the oven.'.

uh huh

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I'm all for it. It'll let us more easily identify and ignore those who will be spending the rest of their lives pumping gas, bagging groceries, or changing oil at Jiffy Lube, and instead concentrate on the students who can go somewhere.

- M4H

Except the No Child Left Behind act forces teachers to focus on those students, often at the expense of the ones that do apply themselves.

I was in school before that came into effect (and I'm also in Canada) but still

QFMFT

What's that? You're identified as gifted? Here's more menial, rudimentary, non-challenging horseshit to keep you occupied while we work with these wastes of skin over here that won't amount to anything in life.

- M4H

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: rivan
The end is nigh.

QFT

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: Dead3ye
Ebonics is not a language. It's a statement. Pretty soom nobody in this country will be able to understand each other.

"Would like your driver's license application in English, Spanish, Ebonics, Yiddish, Arabic, etc?"

It's getting out of hand.

Why not?? You can already take your drivers test in Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese, Korean, Hindu, Greek, ect...

 

[deerslayer]

What a joke.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
and this relates to the suburbs because...

I'm not sure either. The implication that no one speaks Ebonics in the suburbs is wrong, as there's plenty of crotch-draggin, baggy-pants-saggin Fubu-wearin' mother****ers there too.

They just happen to be white.

- M4H

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: meltdown75
and this relates to the suburbs because...

I'm not sure either. The implication that no one speaks Ebonics in the suburbs is wrong, as there's plenty of crotch-draggin, baggy-pants-saggin Fubu-wearin' mother****ers there too.

They just happen to be white.

- M4H

I believe the modern term for said perpetrators is "chav"

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: meltdown75
and this relates to the suburbs because...

I'm not sure either. The implication that no one speaks Ebonics in the suburbs is wrong, as there's plenty of crotch-draggin, baggy-pants-saggin Fubu-wearin' mother****ers there too.

They just happen to be white.

- M4H

I believe the modern term for said perpetrators is "chav"

No, that's just in Britian.

- M4H

 

[thirdeye]

Oh for the love of god. Ebonics now has a "proper" name of Black English Vernacular. No wonder the rest of the world hates us.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: meltdown75
and this relates to the suburbs because...

I'm not sure either. The implication that no one speaks Ebonics in the suburbs is wrong, as there's plenty of crotch-draggin, baggy-pants-saggin Fubu-wearin' mother****ers there too.

They just happen to be white.

- M4H

I believe the modern term for said perpetrators is "chav"

I thought chav referred to the UK thug wannabes? I don't think they wear Fubu either.

 

[ScottyB]

While I was attending college, a significant portion of the black students spoke in Ebonics during class. In fact, the majority of blacks in the Communications department spoke in Ebonics. I could not understand how they made it to college, let alone a four-year institute.

 

[Queasy]

I'm not sure which is sadder....the Ebonics or the fact that there is a government position titled "Chief of Diversity and Leadership"

 

[Rebasxer]

That why I, as well as my children, will attened private schools. I don't want any of this diversity equals sub-standard education crap.