I’ve been reading about this story for a week and saying to myself, No, that is not what Rutgers said. Not at all. Now Snopes has it covered: “Did Rutgers University Declare Grammar ‘Racist’?”
Long story short: writing instruction at Rutgers will place greater emphasis on grammar and other sentence-level matters so as not to disadvantage students from multilingual or “non-standard” academic backgrounds. I’m reminded of what Bryan Garner says: “Standard English: without it, you won't be taken seriously.” To let students believe otherwise is to put them at a disadvantage.
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August 4: Reuters too confirms that the claim that Rutgers called grammar racist is false.
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