A California teacher at Oroville High School, Marta Schaffer, claimed on her TikTok account that that grammar was part of White supremacy.
The teacher raised praised student's academic essays for including"AAVE" language – African-American Vernacular English.
"As an educator I am constantly worry if I'm the problem. What do I mean by that? Well public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society like white supremacy, and, etc," she continued."Well, let's look at how we write essays [where we] start with an introduction that includes a thesis, always cite your sources, use transition words like ‘however’ and ‘therefore.’ These are all made-up rules. They were created by Westerners in power.
She said,"Just because your teachers, your professors, and your boss may expect you to write and speak in a certain way that may not be natural to you, does not mean that your more natural… languages are not important. They are just as important, if not more important than the ‘language of respectability.’"
The English teacher added that she feels like a"cringe white lady" when"teaching students of color" about linguistics. ? Absolutely. Was it uncomfortable? Definitely. But a lot my students come here, and they're uncomfortable with the white mainstream culture of public school life. So I think it's good for them to see their teacher deal with linguistic discomfort, too," she said.
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