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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might need to read some articles about why grammar is is a function of an oppressive society. [/quote]

Is this why ACPS doesn't teach grammar?[/quote]

Assuming people are unintelligent or unprofessional because they use AAVE, which is a dialect that has defined speech patterns and its own grammar, and not standardized WHITE English is racist. It is. [/quote]

It also is not used in academics, literature, or general media so the continued use is likely to have an impact on students who try and take standardized tests, using grammatically correct English.

Think about it - a little kid is asked to select the sentence with the correct grammar. One sentence is written grammatically correct and the other is written in the vascular.  Kid reads both.  The grammatically correct sounds vaguely familiar but the vascular sentence is how he hears adults and friends speaking all the time so that one must be the correct choice. Except it isn't.  And he gets the question wrong. Repeat many times on the same test and this kid who is very intelligent now gets a very low standardized test reading score and is told he needs remediation. [/quote]

If that intelligent kid gets remediation so that he can actually write sentences with standard grammar, won't that better equip him to succeed in the future?  It's not like the broader society is going to start accepting AAVE as standard American English. [/quote]

This is the issue. What you think is “standard grammar” is white grammar. AAVE is standardized too. It had legitimate patterns in syntax, grammar and verb tenses. This is a known linguistic reality. Saying that only white English is standard ignores this. A child who grows up in a home that speaks AAVE DOES have a grasp of grammar and usage and sentence structure and speech patterns. They are taught in schools this is “wrong” and only white English is correct. [/quote]

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