The Joy of Regional Accents!
The Joy of Regional Accents! Should we really be teaching children to lose their accents? Be whoever you want to be! Don’t care about what other people think! Follow your dreams! These are just some of the things we tell our children as they’re growing up. You can do whatever you want to do! There’s another. And so, our children walk into school on that fateful first day with their heads held high, just ready to achieve their goals, while their proud parents look on and weep – when suddenly, BAM! School bans them from their own identity almost as soon as they step in the doors. Yeah kids, be whoever you want to be – if that person has an RP accent. Your accent is a part of who you are. It is a mark of your identity, just as your skin colour is, and you should be proud of it. We want our children to be proud of who they are – but how can they, when schools are banning their accents? Take the primary school in the West Midlands, for example, who have banned students from sp...