Policing children’s language encourages them to think nonstandard English is substandard. Linguistic diversity should be celebrated,not bannedLanguage exercise is one of the final places where prejudice remains socially acceptable. It can even have official approval, as we see in attempts to suppress slang and dialects at school. Most recently, and Ongar Academy in Essex launched a project to discourage students from using words like ain’t,geezer, whatever, and like,and literally.
We’ve been here before. Schools across the country have outlawed inoffensive words, with some asking parents to “right children at home. Slang, and regionalisms,and colloquialisms are typical usages objected to, with occasional spelling errors thrown in as though somehow equivalent. The only thing uniting them is that theyre not considered standard or sufficiently formal.
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Source: theguardian.com