In an effort to abide by the Oakland Public Schools' new 'ebonics' instruction regulations, one area teacher mistakenly began teaching the subject of 'economics' to her 11th-grade class Monday. Suzanne Byrne, a 13-year teaching veteran, badly confused students when she attempted to explain to them such complex economic principles as stagflation, Keynesian incrementalism, and the invisible hand of laissez-faire capitalism. School superintendent Melvin Washington was outraged upon learning of Byrne's actions, saying: 'The voodoo she was teaching involved numbers and complex calculations, which no high-school student can reasonably be expected to understand.' Washington insisted that instruction be limited to the study of ebonics, orin the school's new higher-level Sanford and Son-themed curriculumthe study of 'Lamontics,' which helps young people better understand Lamont Sanford. 