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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Ebonics, Racism, Reason & Literacy
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:23:40 GMT
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In article <5cis3v$18h@frog.inetworld.net>,
Stephanie Manning <smanning@inetworld.net> wrote:
>Mike Wright <darwin@scruznet.com> wrote:
>
>>I was not aware that there was any "excellence in this area" to which we
>>could "return". 
>
>Will you agree that there was a time when the vast majority of our
>graduating eighth-graders were literate?

Yup.  It must've been back when the vast majority of Americans
(particularly those whose native language was not SAE) did not complete
eighth grade...
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