More evidence that our school systems are failing us totally:
WHAM-TV Rochester, NY [1] (Rochester, N.Y.) – It’s called Black English Vernacular – or more commonly – Ebonics.
In a newsletter to staff, Rochester City School District officials say it is OK for students and teachers to speak Ebonics in class.
The newsletter, Diversity Dialogue, suggests teachers use BEV to communicate with students. It says teachers can:
– “Switch into BEV in specific situations or informal discussion.”
– “Translate common phrases in Standard English into BEV.”
– “Read and retell stories in both BEV and Standard English.”
“We need to embrace the diversity they bring into our schools,” said the district’s Chief of Diversity and Leadership, Michele Hancock.
Hancock and Tyra Webb-Johnson, Director of Coaching and Leadership, wrote the newsletter. They are both former elementary school principals.
“We want (teachers) to have a better understanding of what BEV is so they can incorporate it into their teaching. That way, they’re not alienating the students who are speaking the vernacular and degrading them,” Webb-Johnson said.
Yesterday, I referenced [2] an article posted by Bruce McQuain at Q&O. [3]
He states flatly, and so do I, that the schools primary responsibility is to transmit our culture to our young people. While Bruce’s comments, seemingly, are focused on the Muslim takeover of the west, I submit to you that it is not limited to that sphere of influence. As this story from Rochester indicates.
Interestingly, these questions of culture, and the support of it, are exactly the same questions, the same arguments, that Rush Limbaugh and some other talk show hosts of the right, were raising 10, 15 even 20 years ago. And they were called “racist” for their trouble. It isn’t true now, it wasn’t true then.
Just what does it take to get people in this country to protect their own? Must we have planes crashing into buildings to get people in this country to take the threat against our culture seriously?
If we aren’t going to fight for our culture, and support it as it should be, who will?
Are we that afraid of black people progressing in western culture, that we need our schools to teach them to sound like total idiots?