Why 'official English' matters

[Ronald Kephart]

On 2/19/08 10:35 AM, "Harold Schiffman" <hfsclpp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tuesday, February 19, 2008
> Why 'official English' matters
> Learning English is key for non-English speakers to assimilate and
> function well in the U.S.
> By Shannon L. Goessling, Special to the Daily Report
> 
> [...] But that's the key: non-English speakers in the U.S.
> must learn to speak English in order to function well and assimilate.

Could advocates for the use of African American English in early schooling
use this as evidence that AAE is non-English, and therefore a separate
language?

Ron