FT> ...dunno, but I don't think I could put it better than the HS student 
FT> from Oakland who said (in wonderful english): "if my teacher and I 
FT> don't understand each other learning doesn't occur". (before 
FT> congress)
    I notice the student did not have to talk in "Ebonics" to congressmen, 
probably because he knew it would not impress them _and_ because few of them 
would understand it if "Ebonics" was indeed a "foreign language" that they 
never studied.
    If this student (a vocational-school student, BTW) could speak and 
understand standard English in Washington in a congressional hearing, he can 
understand it and speak it back in his Oakland school.
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