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Leftist Researcher: Teachers Should Stop Requiring Standard English From Minorities, Too ‘Oppressive’

Amanda Prestigiacomo

In typical patronizing fashion of the Left, a white female undergraduate researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Erika Gallagher, is arguing that learning and using proper English within school walls is too challenging and “oppressive” for black and brown students, who should instead be allowed to use “any form of English ” they feel “comfortable with,” like Ebonics, or African-American Vernacular English.

This, my friends, is what you might call “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

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