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people were ashamed of it. Some
of her students even told her that
people thought that Patois was to be
spoken only by uneducated people. It
had become a barrier, which further
separated everyone.
Some of the students told her
that in schools, little children were
her students were friends. Because being punished for speaking Patois
of how open she was, the students in the classroom and that the parents
opened up to her about the use of at home were shaming and even
Patois and English. She was sad to physically punishing their children
hear that even though Patois was for using the language. The idea
spoken more often than English, that of this broke Miss Lou's heart and
