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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should I be concerned that one of the home room teachers at my kid's Big 3 Elementary School class says "aks" instead of "ask"?[/quote]

Does that make you classist, or racist?  Well, that depends.  [i][b]Suppose that your child's teacher said "y'all" and dropped her letter "l"s from the end of words like "pool".  But she was a beautiful, preppy sorority type who had attended Nashville's elite Harpeth Hall (or Charleston's Ashley Hall) prep school, and later graduated from the University of Alabama, where she had been a Crimson Tide Cheerleader.   Would you be "concerned", or would you be "really happy" to have your child taught by such a "sweet" teacher[/b][/i][b]?[/quote]

The fact that no one has responded to the above example is telling.[/quote]

I'll bite.  The y'all bit doesn't really matter to me (as that is clearly southern dialect), but I would not be happy spending $35K a year to have some dumb ass cheerleader teach my kid. [/quote]

"Y'all" is a contraction of two words (You and All), not the phonetic misspeaking of a word ("Ax" rather than "Ask.")  Yes, there is a difference.

And what Southerner drops ls from the end of words? Sorry, but no.[/quote]

My sibling attended Stanford back in the late 1980s.  One of the young men in their social group, "Luke", was from a very small town in the South.  He dropped most of the "l"s from the end of his words, such that "fool" sounded more like "foo".  Strange but true.  [/quote]

Since a previous poster took offense with the cheerleader detail of the hypothetical, I will get rid of that detail.

So, are you classist, or racist?  Well, that depends.

Suppose that your child's teacher said "y'all" and dropped her letter "l"s from the end of words like "pool".  But she was a beautiful, preppy sorority type who had attended Nashville's elite Harpeth Hall (or Charleston's Ashley Hall) prep school, and later graduated from the University of Virginia.   Would you be "concerned", or would you be "really happy" to have your child taught by such a "sweet" teacher?[/quote]

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