Extra Credit Blog:)

The decision to consider a person who speaks Ebonics as a bilingual speaker is completely absurd. Teaching Ebonics as a second language is just like teaching southern and northern dialects as a language. A dialect is a form of a language. Ebonics derived from English and is spoken as it has changed over time. Although a teacher can try and explain something to the students in Ebonics, normally, if a student speaks Ebonics, they learned English first because there is no Ebonics book like there is an English book.
Students who are taught in Ebonics would probably learn English much slower than a student who was taught only English in English. The student would have to learn the language so much faster because if they did not, they would not know what was going on in the class. Only speaking the language the student is trying to learn forces them to learn the new language much faster.
“Primary languages are the language patterns children bring to school. (313)” As a child is learning any language, they do learn it first at home. When the teachers are teaching the students, the teachers realize that different children have learned different information and also at different times in their life. One of the students may know all of the parts of speech when another student who is the same age is unable to determine the difference between too, two, and to. The school systems should not have different classes for the children who speak Ebonics at home. They will need to learn English no matter what.
These children who would be taught in Ebonics would be learning the same information but in a different way. If they were taught in Ebonics, the faculty of these schools would need to find teachers who are very aware of the Ebonics “language” as well as know how to teach in the form.