[Thebaddog]

Here's the plan. Pay attention in school and respect your teacher. When she says do your homework, do your homework. Study hard and get good grades.

That's the plan. Let the other dopes worry about their "rights" while you are going off to college with good grades.

[Amerigomag]

Poor minority kids are far more likely to have less-qualified teachers, far more likely to have watered-down curriculum.

And racial preferences are going to produce "more qualified" teachers?

A college graduate who speaks ebonics is hardly going to improve the lot of America's poor.