FT>  FT> ...one of your earlier postings quoted an individual -- school
FT>  FT> principal, I believe -- as saying to the effect that maybe ones
FT>  FT> grandmother would be  able to understand them at 
FT>  FT> home speaking Ebonics
FT>  FT> but it wouldn't cut it  in the real world.  ...I quite agree 
FT> that
FT>  FT> Ebonics isn't the medium of  commerce in America 
FT>  WL> but I question deeply
FT>  FT> whether a person  making such a statement has values that 
FT> Americans
FT>  FT> should  respect at all.
FT> 
FT>  WL> Let's see if I've got it right.  You think they won't be able to 
FT> get
FT>  WL> a job, but only an insensitive cad would say so.
FT> 
FT> No, I saw it as being demeaning to the maternal line of the family 
    K-12 schools are established (and funded by taxpayers) to teach kids how 
to succeed in jobs and be productive citizens, not to be family therapists.  
It also isn't "demeaning" to a family to teach its kid the material he needs 
to succeed instead of to affirm the richness of some ethnic tradition's 
dialect.
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