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If the whole point of teaching an Ebonics curriculum is to give credit to the intellectual capacity of capable students who don't "sound smart" because they write in their own dialect, doesn't it seem strange to assume that these same capable students could not easily learn to write in the standard that exists in the country of their birth?
I don't view this as the same situation that a new immigrant faces; a new immigrant could be the smartest person in the world and get poor grades because of a genuine language barrier. I simply do not belive there are very many people who live in America their whole lives and are so isolated from "standard" English that they just CANNOT pick it up. Especially in urban areas, which are the places that Ebonics flourishes and continues its incredibly rapid evolutionary process.
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