Ebonics being pushed - idiot educators

[Prudence]

This is a bit of a tangent:

While it's all fun and games for us to have little debates here on the LoT, I think this article illustrates some of the problems with journalism today. I re-read the article, and it sure doesn't deal in specifics. It refers to "incorporating" Ebonics. What the heck does that mean, exactly?

Then to complicate things, you have quotes from a sociologist not affiliated with the school board giving her view on Ebonics as a foreign language, paired up with the pilot program coordinator, who referes to supplemental reading. These two quotes imply very different levels of involvement.

There's a huge difference between setting up an ESL program where students are educated part of the day in their "native" language, and establishing a supplemental program where students did everything they already did before the same way they did it before, only now they have some additional material to address an area officials feel could offer improvement.

Basically there's no actual info presented. We have no idea what this district is actually planning. We have quotes from the usual suspects: this is great, this is awful, what about my group? We have vague allusions to training in culture and customs. And that's basically it. One might almost suspect that the article was designed to piss people off.