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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
I was about to come in here and mention code-switching until I saw you had mentioned it. I'd be careful in "correcting" students without qualifying the correction by saying that it's appropriate to speak the language of business (or whatever you choose to call it) IN SCHOOL. Students today are required to speak the white man's English. When they're told that their language is "wrong" it alienates them even more from those who were brought up speaking Standard English.
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What if it's white kids doing it?? Seriously, when I go visit my dad in Hickland, I hear kids who have probably never had interaction with a black person ever talking in what would be considered black dialect. Whether it's to piss off their parents, to try to sound cool, or to mock black people, at any rate it's ridiculous.
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