The Importance of Being in Class

So, I get to my conference okay.  I talked to Mr. Barnette about some off the wall issues, and then we discussed my paper.  Let me just go ahead and point out that I wasn't thrilled at the grade I got.  As we were going through this paper, he pointed out many little stupid things that I didn't think of that were absolutely killing my paper.  Oh well.  He's giving me a chance to revise it, and now I know everything I can do to help.  It's this next paper that's going to give me troubles, seeing as to how it's due soon.  It's very important to come to class.  I had to miss a day that could have really helped me.  It was the self-evaluation day.  Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I want to discuss one of the readings.  I believe it was called something like "English is for Everyone".  After reading that, I feel about "yay" high (probably about an inch, using an old country term).  I'm not sure on the spelling for that, but it's not very tall.  Honestly, I try to speak as properly as possible, because I don't want people to associate me with having "hick" backgrounds.  However, after reading this, I see that these words that "hicks" use, have been used for a long time.  The reading talked about how people got together to make certain rules.  The rules they made cut out a lot of that language.  Who are those people to say what's wrong and what's not?  My ignorance of all of this before made me feel uncomfortable to be caught sounding like that.  But really, I think me and some of my buddies should organize a national convention on how you can and can't walk.  We're going to rule out "strutting", so models are just going to have to find a new way to walk.  --That makes no sense whatsoever.  Is that how it happened?  Were they all just in a meeting and saying stuff like, "well, Geoffrey says this word 'yonder'.  I don't like it, let's say it's not proper."  

I think everyone's so caught up in being politically correct that we've forgotten the most important thing, acknowledgement of cultures.  Nowhere in the United States is the same.  Maybe I've been wrong all these years.  Maybe it is okay to have an accent and say words like, "tater, mater, tornader."  I think the worst part is that having an accent and just being yourself can keep you from earning an important job.  I guess someone from Nebraska would get the job instead.  I don't know.  All I know is that I'm hoping to find out more to help me understand and to think more open-mindedly.