12 August 2024
In my opinion, one of the most brilliant and powerful things about poetry is that it can be a vehicle for children to write in their voice, about their life. As a former primary school teacher, I'm well versed in how much the English education system is still bound by an outdated notion that Standard Spoken English (SSE) is the correct way to speak, regardless of who we are, where we were born, where we grew up and who we grew up with.