There's been plenty of research showing that the idea that a nonstandard dialect of English is just someone being "lazy" or "sloppy" and that you can turn them into standard English speakers by just berating them to work harder is tremendously damaginghttps://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1285932872138883072 …
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Specifically the original Ebonics controversy centered around people noticing that English teachers like to do a lot of condescending interrupting in the middle of someone talking, treating a use of nonstandard grammar as a "mistake" or "slip"
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"It don't feel like --" "It DOESN'T feel like" This is really fucking annoying, and it doesn't actually teach anyone anything It disrupts your original train of thought and just makes you frustrated
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Again it's based on the idea that using the "wrong" verb here is the result of just being "lazy" or "not paying attention" If you actually understood that AAVE was its own consistent language with its own set of rules you wouldn't act like that
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The point of "Ebonics" education wasn't to teach the whole curriculum in "Ebonics" and never speak Standard English It was to treat AAVE as its own language and treat learning Standard English as a second language, no different than teaching a Spanish speaker English
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You don't interrupt someone with "DOESN'T, not don't", you let them finish their original statement in AAVE and then *translate* it into Standard English with the two sentences side by side There's nothing controversial about this unless you consider AAVE itself a shameful thing
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