ABSTRACT

African-American students as part of their culture and history as African people possess and utilize a language described in various scholarly approaches as "Ebonics" (literally Black sounds) or pan African Communication Behaviors or African systems; local educational agencies "build their capacities to establish, implement and sustain programs of instruction for children and youth of limited English proficiency,"

"smoking Conversation" in which, we all know, individual freedom is pitted against social responsibility.