Comments | la_zumo: My spirit is crushed.

la_zumo

My spirit is crushed.

Nov 23, 2009 23:28

I just finished grading. Before I drug myself to sleep, let me leave you with one last gem from a student's blue book ( Read more... )

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artnymph29 November 24 2009, 13:28:20 UTC

Oh, it hurts...poor, poor Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston is probably rolling over in her grave right now...

la_zumo November 25 2009, 18:30:35 UTC

Word. This and all of the factual errors are just an affront to our nation's history. I'm offended by how they can play so fast and loose with important facts.

Gah. "Ebonics."

boggit November 24 2009, 19:38:19 UTC

Is it fair or unfair to suppose this person has never actually known a person of color?

I don't think I ever got anything that horrific. If I did, I blocked it out.

la_zumo November 25 2009, 18:33:12 UTC

It's very possible. This is Texas, and it's perhaps more racially segregated (de facto) than Georgia, if you can believe it.

I read this out loud to Evan, to which he responded, "No. No, no, NO!!!!"

byelka58 November 30 2009, 02:23:39 UTC

I'm still working on what music in Ebonics would sound like. Do you have to buy special instruments? Like, here's my alto sax, and here's my tenor sax, and here's my African-American sax?

Exams don't leave much time for review and correction, but it's always a good idea to be sure nothing you've written is flat-out ridiculous.