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There's a time and place for everything under the sun, but come on in the classroom? I'm sending my child to school to be a well rounded and groomed citizen of the world. They should be able to mix it up with anyone on the street as well as take care of business in the boardroom.
I guess that's why my decision now is to remove my children from public school altogether. Their propensity to champion defiancy in the classroom is becoming easier than teaching life skills.
I don't speak Ebonics myself and never did- I feel it's better to speak standard English and was raised to do just that. I talk the way I write.
At the same time, some Black children come to school speaking some form of Ebonics, usually because it's all they hear around them and no one has yet insisted they speak Standard English. It's generally a good idea for their teachers to at least be able to understand what they're saying while teaching them standard English. That's not the same thing as teaching the children Ebonics or allowing them to only speak it.