This is the soft bigotry of low expectations in action. How does this way of thinking benefit the students?
IJR reports:
Professor: Asking Black Students to Write Using Standard English is ‘Anti-Black Linguistic Racism’Expecting black students to write standard English that their teachers understand is racist, according to a University of Michigan professor.April Baker-Bell believes that “traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm or consequences these approaches have on Black students’ sense of self and identity,” according to an article in Equity in Teaching Academic Language.Baker-Bell expounded on that during a November online workshop for faculty and graduate students hosted by Northern Illinois University, according to the The College Fix.Baker-Bell said that because black language is “devalued in classrooms,” it “reflects how black lives are devalued in the world.”“Similarly, the way we think about this notion of standard mainstream English is directly connected to the invisible way that White culture is often deemed normal, neutral, and superior in the world,” she said.Baker-Bell is an associate professor of language, culture, and justice in education who authored a 2020 book titled “Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.” She contributed to a 2020 paper calling for an end to “White Mainstream English.”Requiring black students to use standard English is “anti-black linguistic racism,” she says.
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