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Originally posted by btb87
Ebonics suggested for district
SAN BERNARDINO - Incorporating Ebonics into a new school policy that targets black students, the lowest-achieving group in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, may provide students a more well-rounded curriculum, said a local sociologist.
The goal of the district's policy is to improve black students' academic performance by keeping them interested in school. Compared with other racial groups in the district, black students go to college the least and have the most dropouts and suspensions.
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Did anyone else get this? In the article it states...
"A pilot of the policy, known as the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative, has been implemented at two city schools."
That acronym is the SANKOFA Initiative...
I'm mad at that...real
Ebonics is NOT our history/past...nor is knowing ebonics going to help us understand why and how we came to be who we are today...so using SANKOFA as the acronym is way out of order...
or houw about this?
"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."
Hey Shaniqua...what language you took in high skoo?
"Ebonics, girl...ebonics..shoo...now I can really be competitive for college and be a doctor like my mama said I could..."
Who the hell speaks ebonics...? I can't even wrap my mind around this...it's worse because San Bernardino is the country-est of all places in California (from my perception) and (from what I've personally experienced) the "other" folks there aren't exactly the epitome of refinement and class...so, why do the Black folks always need some other type of curriculum to make us "more comfy?" It'll have the exact opposite effect and "they" know it.