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Home English vs. school English


Hands shot up even before third-grade teacher Tammi Berman had finished reading a sentence in "Flossie and the Fox," a book written in the dialect of the rural South.

"Yo'self," she read, and eager students waved their hands. "You ain't," she continued, as even more hands shot up. Naush Boghossian in the Daiy News.

"You a real fox," she read as more students clamored for her attention.

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