Quote from the article:  Among the misconceptions about Pidgin, said Darrell H.Y. Lum, a panel speaker and the co-founder of Bamboo Ridge Press, is that it is “broken English” or a “language of the stupid.”  I've lived in Hawaii for 60 years, grew up in Hilo, learned pidgin for casual conversation among local friends, am part-Hawaiian, dropped my Southern drawl, and became an English teacher and librarian.  In all those years, I have never heard anyone describe pidgin as broken or for the stupid.  I've known people who were fascinated and intrigued by it but never considered it broken or the people who spoke it stupid.  Using pidgin to communicate in certain circumstances and contexts is one thing.  Yes, there IS a time and place for it.  Teaching students to speak it in public schools?  When hell freezes over and pigs fly.  Fix the current problems with public schools before creating another one.

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