re: Correct grammar be like racist

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But the what is that she needs her students to know how to properly construct and punctuate a sentence.

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That’s what you want her to say. It’s not at all what she’s saying. I think we both understand each other’s position on this. Thanks.

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So in addition to her words being clear the first, she has again re-emphasized that she is not removing grammatical standards but rather raising them

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lol

Man you haven't been around academic doublespeak very much have you?

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"the effort will result in “more attention to grammar in the aggregate, not less.

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"in the aggregate" here is a giant flashing red beacon that you really should spot.

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This approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard "academic" English backgrounds at a disadvantage

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It's fun when English writers Do Us the courtesy of properly punctuating because it's a giveaway. She did not put the word academic in quotes up there for no reason.

So now I will Define the whole paragraph for you that you linked

They are going to make sure they teach all of the kids about the many different ways of writing to include the "academic" way

They're going to teach the kids that prior Dogma that said there was only really one way to write is colonization of the language

When she says they are going to focus on grammar in the aggregate........ repeat in the aggregate........ what she is saying is, "hey we are going to make sure they write correctly within the new paradigm we will be teaching"

This is as opposed to the so-called old dog, which simply said you had to let black kids slide

It's wordsmithing. She's basically saying " Dogma used to say that we had to let the black kids slide and not write correctly. But now we are going to focus on critical grammar which eliminates the idea that there is a single correct way to do it in the first place"

This will allow us to focus on even more "grammar in the aggregate"

Postmodernism is an absolute cancer which allows their entire ideology to exist. Truly a cancer to reasoning, intelligence, and truth

Yes! Correct grammar also makes people anti-cajun.

Met an old white cajun guy selling watermelons a while ago. I just wanted to buy a watermelon. But, cajun dude kept trying to make small talk. I couldn't understand what he was saying. After the 5th time I said "excuse me? " and had him repeat himself, I just gave up. I let him keep the change, and left in defeat.

I don't see anything wrong with they're trying to do.

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I guess this means "aks" him, or "ax" him means the same thing as "ask" him? I hope whites who are used to saying "ask" him, aren't called racist for not changing to "aks" him.

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Wut dafuk u talkin' bout, Willis?

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Blacks score lower on standardized tests in English and verbal sections and first-generation Mexican immigrant students do. D

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Hell, they do worse than African immigrants.

So my question is... why not apply this to foreign language courses at the college level? Why do we have to conjugate french verbs? Couldn’t we just ignore masculine and feminine modifiers, since english doesn’t have that? German would be waaaay easier without Der, Das, and Die. Just make everything Das. Like english. Isn’t that how german should be taught to americans?