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No one has advocated teaching it to someone as a foreign language. It's about teaching English to kids who speak it as if English were a foreign language to THEM.
Look at it like this. Which of the following do you think is more likely to end with a kid wanting to learn "proper" English?
1) Hey, stop talking like that, it's wrong, only stupid, uneducated people talk like that. I don't care if your parents, their parents, their friends, your friends, and everybody you talk to every day talks like that, it's wrong, we need to fix you.
2) Alright, your family, friends, and everyone you know talk like that, that's fine. But the rest of the country doesn't, so we're going to teach you how to speak their language so you can work with them.
It just makes sense.
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