Name of Student :Name of Professor :Course :Date of Submission :There are said to be three ways through which teachers can respond to the use of non-standard language in general . These are 1 )eradicationism , which involves abandoning the nonstandard language completely 2 ) pluralism , which means recognizing the effectiveness of all languages by simply allowing students ‘ use of non-standard language and 3 ) code-switching , which entails allowing the use of non-standard language but still encouraging mastery of the standard for pragmatic purposes (Howard , “The Great Wall ‘ par . 1 .There are conservatives who believe that the first way is what should be done about African American English Vernacular usage especially in public schools . It is said that most of this “mania ‘ is attributed to the pressure made towards educators when the self-consciousness of Europeans and Americans are compared . Such pressure , however , should not allow for the disregard of language as something confined to a number of standards and criteria that must be met . Yes , there are standards , and as said earlier , meeting them is important for economic mobility . But more than that , language is greatly linked to one ‘s culture and it is not one aspect that can be easily changed in a person . The use of African American English or any other nonstandard language in schools can probably never be ended . The best solution , therefore , is a compromise , similar to that proposed in code-switching .Smitherman , during her speech in 1995 (Smitherman 4 , phrases this best by saying . It shows something about the…