WL>  FT> ...one of your earlier postings quoted an individual -- school
WL>  FT> principal, I believe -- as saying to the effect that maybe ones
WL>  FT> grandmother would be  able to understand them at home speaking 
WL> Ebonics
WL>  FT> but it wouldn't cut it  in the real world.  ...I quite agree 
WL> that
WL>  FT> Ebonics isn't the medium of  commerce in America but I question 
WL> deeply
WL>  FT> whether a person  making such a statement has values that 
WL> Americans
WL>  FT> should  respect at all.
WL> 
WL> Let's see if I've got it right.  You think they won't be able to get
WL> a job, but only an insensitive cad would say so.
    This illustrates the "political-correctness" problem crippling the K-12 
public schools.  Too many administrators (and some teachers) are unwilling to 
say that a student's later success in America will be determined by his 
learning and using standard English and adopting other values derided as 
"white" or "middle-class".  What is more important, cultural "richness" (word 
used by Oakland School Board to describe Ebonics), or being able to get a 
b?
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