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July 20, 2005

My Elementary School Makes The News

But unfortunately not in a good way. The San Bernardino Unified School District has decided to introduce Ebonics into the curriculum and my former elementary school (which if I understand correctly eventually became the King Middle School mentioned in the story) is one of the schools that will be participating (via dangerous dan). I went to MLK Elementary School for two years in the 1980's and for the most part got a decent education there. I was bussed to MLK from the other side of the city to attend a gifted program, partly to help integrate the school. No word yet if the district will be adding Klingon, Esperanto, or any other made up languages to the curriculum in addition to Ebonics.

Here is the San Bernardino Sun article

"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe,' Texeira said. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language.'

To quote Bill Cosby

Its standing on the corner. It cant speak English. It doesnt want to speak English. I cant even talk the way these people talk. Why you aint where you is go, ra, I dont know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk . Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows its important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You cant land a plane with why you aint You cant be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that theyre moving ahead on this. Well, they know theyre not, theyre just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when youre just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

Posted by Pete at July 20, 2005 10:16 AM

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UGH!!!

Posted by: MIL at July 21, 2005 10:33 AM