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OK, I edited my last post a lot, sorry.
I don't really think I was "dismissing their own language as irrelevant." I think you've kind of misunderstood what I did. I didn't come right out and tell them that their usage of Ebonics was unacceptable. I marked stuff wrong on their essays and then sometimes would talk to them later about what would have been better. Ebonics never actually came up, but the books we used had examples in them that were clearly modeled after ebonics and my classes would laugh at them because they recognized things in the wrong answers that they say all the time.
Anyway, I don't think we should have different SATs, that's too simple a solution.
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