Ask an ebonics user to produce or even comprehend a writtten or spoken report. Even "What I did in my summer break."
He will not be able to do it!
Now send him to university to read and comprehend textbooks, take classroom notes, and produce summaries, syntheses or analyses of those texts or notes.
What? He can't do it? But ebonics is just as good as standard American English!
Ask an ebonics user to produce or even comprehend a writtten or spoken report. Even "What I did in my summer break."
How does that show that Ebonics is any more or less valid than standard English?
It shows the monumental failure of the American 'educational' system, which appears to just be able indoctrinating children into the cult-like beliefs of the loony teachers.
Now send him to university to read and comprehend textbooks, take classroom notes, and produce summaries, syntheses or analyses of those texts or notes.
Ah, I see that you're trying to say that it is not desirable for a kid to only know Ebonics. I completely agree with that. The point is not that there is no need for a common language that facilitates communication, but only that from an objective standpoint, Ebonics is no better or worse as a language than Standard English.
What? He can't do it? But ebonics is just as good as standard American English!
If all textbooks etc. were written in Ebonics, then that would not make Ebonics any better than Standard English.
Says someone with no background in linguistics.
Ask an ebonics user to produce or even comprehend a writtten or spoken report. Even "What I did in my summer break."
He will not be able to do it!
Now send him to university to read and comprehend textbooks, take classroom notes, and produce summaries, syntheses or analyses of those texts or notes.
What? He can't do it? But ebonics is just as good as standard American English!
A linguistics expert on .win told me so!
How does that show that Ebonics is any more or less valid than standard English?
It shows the monumental failure of the American 'educational' system, which appears to just be able indoctrinating children into the cult-like beliefs of the loony teachers.
Ah, I see that you're trying to say that it is not desirable for a kid to only know Ebonics. I completely agree with that. The point is not that there is no need for a common language that facilitates communication, but only that from an objective standpoint, Ebonics is no better or worse as a language than Standard English.
If all textbooks etc. were written in Ebonics, then that would not make Ebonics any better than Standard English.
As for lingustiics experts... see John McWhorter.