Teacher Sparks Debate After Banning Long List Of Slang In Classroom As 'Improper English'

How yall feel bout this ?

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@AH_Belonging @hearts4zaniyahh She\xe2\x80\x99s a teacher. She\xe2\x80\x99s valuing education. She doesn\xe2\x80\x99t have to learn about her students beyond whatever they need to LEARN/what she needs to be able to teach them.

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@AH_Belonging @hearts4zaniyahh No it makes total sense especially when you have to correct the essays that use too much slang and children don't know how to expand on the ideas. Because slang is usually one word to express something, when writing children can't explain themselves well

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@hearts4zaniyahh She\xe2\x80\x99s on a power trip & and doesn\xe2\x80\x99t value the language of her students. She is more concerned with compliance than learning about her students, because she does not value her students\xe2\x80\x99 identities.

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@AxelM66 @AH_Belonging @hearts4zaniyahh This isn\xe2\x80\x99t education, this is enforcing conformity. Writing is mean to be expressive and diverse, even within educational settings. And teachers have a responsibility to learn about their students and build relationship with them, this is fundamental to learning.

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@AH_Belonging @smoke_nd_pearlz @hearts4zaniyahh Interesting she chose specific cultural slang to target & didn\xe2\x80\x99t just say \xe2\x80\x9cno slang\xe2\x80\x9d. If it were just about her wanting them to use professional language, she would prohibit all slang. I\xe2\x80\x99d be awful because I would correct her & anyone else who didn\xe2\x80\x99t speak the Kings English in\xe2\x80\xa6

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@hearts4zaniyahh Just say don\xe2\x80\x99t use AAVE and go cause \xf0\x9f\x98\x92

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so you want all the black kids to be prohibited from your classroom is what you\xe2\x80\x99re trying to say\xe2\x80\xa6.

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This might be the most egregious display of anti-blackness I\xe2\x80\x99ve seen in a grip.

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@khyla_ed @hearts4zaniyahh As a former English teacher, I taught students to translate African American English to \xe2\x80\x9cStandard\xe2\x80\x9d American English rather than punish them for their home language. \n\nWhen you tell students that their language is wrong, you tell them that their cultures & identities are wrong.

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@hearts4zaniyahh I get where they're trying to go with that but I don't agree with cutting out slang. Language is always evolving and there's more than one way to speak English. This just seems like power tripping and respectability politics to me \xf0\x9f\x98\x90

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