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Which of the Following Is TRUE About the 1996 Ebonics

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Which of the following is TRUE about the 1996 Ebonics controversy?


A) The Oakland school board declared Ebonics to be the primary linguistic system of many of its students, and proposed that teachers recognize the existence of Ebonics in order to teach those students Standard English
B) The Oakland school board stated that Ebonics did not have linguistic rules like other American dialects, and it contained more slang than other dialects, so it was not suitable for the classroom
C) The Oakland school board found the term Ebonics to be racist
D) The Oakland school board did not recognize Ebonics as valid linguistic system
E) The Oakland school board did not acknowledge Ebonics as stemming from the history of the Africans in America

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