Larger question: What are the conventional differences between the teachings of standard and advanced English and is the standard class truly teaching "standard English"?
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but no matter what you choose, there’s always going to be challenges
Acceptance of challenge and comparison of both courses.
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felt affected by peer pressure at times because most of their cohort chose advanced English. Ultimately, they went with their teacher’s recommendation of standard English and did not regret it, both receiving Band 5 marks.
Peer pressure causes students to think differently, possibly selecting classes that may seem easier or harder. Standard English may be harder for modern students.
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socioeconomic backgrounds
Could the socioeconomic conditions of a student affect their capabilities in school and especially their understanding of English.
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Ever since I can remember, that [gap] has been there, and it is a little bit of an anomaly across subjects because I don’t think there’s any other subject that has a similar [gap].
Supporting evidence for a claim later?
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This means fewer than 1 in 100 standard English students received a Band 6 result, compared with 15 in every 100 advanced English students
Is standard English getting too complex to learn?
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the proportion of students studying standard English has increased – up from 42.8 per cent in 2019 to 44.2 per cent in 2024.
More students learning standard English may better fit them for college and career prep as well as improving social interactions depending on passage rate.
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Investigating the downfall of advanced English and the testing comparisons to standard English.
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The proportion of HSC students choosing advanced English has fallen since 2019, leading to about 2000 more students taking standard English last year.
Advanced vs. Standard English marks comparison and findings.
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Todd insisted Afrocentrism is a pseudo science, and not history, and too often it includes historical fallacies, racism and racial isolation that school must not teach our children.
A possible support for the teaching of Afro-American history while denying the teaching of Ebonics in the classroom, suggesting that it is a racist value.
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Oreo Cookey
Probable intentional misspelling.
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So far all four of the Brown groups have rejected any compromise and firmly insist on their own proposed handle with the full right to dictate the selected ebonic substitute for other Brown people.
A battle of races in the education system has left communities more disorganized than ever.
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because they know that along with the name accepted will go some control of the Federal dollar given to schools for such purposes
Another possible agenda like Ebonics?
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Text diverts from simply African or Black communities and focuses on Native American and Hispanic communities that may struggle with standard English as well.
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Whether it is a hillbilly child, and African American child, or other, respect for the child has little to do with tolerating or not tolerating incorrect English.
Wide range of children may suffer from improper usage of English.
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This rally around race only serves to lead to ghetto children less prepared to compete in the world of tomorrow.
Reinforcement of ebonics in the community leave the slang justified on the home-front.
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no affirmative action program can compensate for sloppy ineffective speech.
Claim of irreversable damages done to the English program of Oakland School.
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Possible biases emerging or the integration of personal accounts.
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The Oakland School District needs to learn how to teach proper English, not how to coddle inappropriate speech in the classroom
Sounds like a quoted source or personal opinion?
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The real objective for ebonics, like Afrocentric education, is to immobilize and often to discredit the public school systems efforts to teach the standard English.
Afrocentric education agenda?
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The failure to recognize and re-teach Ebonics users may cuase a lifetime of struggle due to language barriers.
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making the child unfit for later career development in a post modern information society
Inability to essentially "re-learn" the standard English language may hinder the development of the individual. Esepcially deeper into college and career life should re-education fail to take place.
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It matters little if the inappropriate speech pattern derives from poverty, rap music, hip hop culture, a dysfunctional ghetto family, or historical speech variations from Africa or the plantation
A wide variety of factors contribute to the inception of Ebonics.
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are appropriately thought to have language disorders and often with learning disabilities
Is there a correlation between the percentage of children that live in poverty and the percentage of children that are considered to have learning disabilities?
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Source reporting on the controversy of Ebonics and the role it plays on the youth.
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show disrespect and to mislead the child and an entire race of African-American people
Continued conformity to slang in the classroom may present the child as incapable of improvement or proper communication
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some attempts to legitimize such poor language habits as being a culturally legitimate African or English language do more harm than good to students
The false varification of this slang fails to align with either traditional African or English language values, thus rendering it useless.
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It involves information economy where standard English determines one's career success and failure. Let us face it, ebonics is a fancy political cover for abnormal, defective, or dysfunctional speech
Guiding claim/overshadowing argument.
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