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There is in all cultures a language of educated discourse. To take an extreme example, nobody ever natively spoke scholarly Mandarin and wrote eight-legged essa
by megaman22 8y ago
There is in all cultures a language of educated discourse. To take an extreme example, nobody ever natively spoke scholarly Mandarin and wrote eight-legged essays for fun. The SAT is less severe, but, yeah, it requires some effort and practice to be familiar with the language and the essay format. Not being able or willing to put in the effort to learn this very accessible information is not a good sign for being able to survive equally or moreso arbitrary environments in university.
- learc83 8y agoWhat is it with this topic causing people to argue with straw men? >Not being able or willing to put in the effort to learn This has nothing to do with putting in effort. Across a population, people who grew up speaking a dialect will perform better on a test than people who learned to speak that dialect later. This isn't a controversial statement. If your goal is to ensure that speakers of other dialects have equal access to top tier higher education, you will need to account for that somehow. If you dont care about equal access to speakers of other dialects, then you don't have to do anything.