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When I was teaching SAT prep classes in ATL, most of the high schools I worked at were 99% black and I had to grade hundreds of essays.
It was hard to decide about some things - some students who were otherwise very smart, would write the most insane ebonicisms on their essays. I didn't know what to do, so I just counted it all wrong and told them that they needed to learn how to write differently than they talked. It sucks and it makes life hard, but that's the way it is - people won't take you seriously if you write like that.
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