This will help them in the long run during interviews and such. .
Maybe someday Ebonics will be accepted and understood by everyone, but until then it is very important to be able to speak Standard English. "Children taught using Ebonics readers did worse than their peers who were taught with Standard English readers- (Stix 3). With that in mind, "Robert Williams, who coined the term Ebonics in 1973, maintained that it is an act of disrespect for a white teacher to correct a black child- (Stix 13). If learning to use Standard English correctly benefits the child, why not correct her? By not correcting the "bad grammar- teachers cannot determine the correct grade on papers and the child who may have all the knowledge needed but not the words to express the knowledge, will not be treated like the "white- kids and the teacher is deemed as a racist. "Many middle-class blacks like to sometimes "go ghetto- and use street slang, but these professionals can speak Standard English, in many cases better than me. The poor and working-class blacks who have not been taught Standard English have nowhere to go- (Stix 15). Ebonics is fine to know and communicate with whether in school or in the community, just make sure that Standard English is understood. .
On the flipside, "experts- Ernie Smith and Karen Crozier say "Ebonics is not English. Presuming, inherently, by the very use of the word "English- that the language of slave descendants of African origin is a variant of "English-, the inference is also made that, being a dialect of English, there is a genetic kinship between "Black English- and Germanic language family to which English belongs. The fact is, from a historical linguistic perspective, in terms of "base- form which the grammatical features of Black English derives, nothing could be further from the truth- (Smith, Crozier pg 1). This suggests that Ebonics is not even a language.
