[urangutan]

If schools in America is the result of the government explain to me why you have so many accents. The reason you do is that most schools through the history of America are the development from the church. The Methodist and Lutheran churches of a certain area in America aided an accent development that stems from a Germanic background of the teacher who taught English in that neck of the woods. Yes of course government brought the school forward through the ages but it was the community that first developed the school. Follow most relious movements in Americas past and you can almost hear the accent develop.

A work ethic can also be a conditioning not unlike regimentation and it can be brough about in more ways than simply expecting it from the parents. The way things have got you can barely trust parents for anything and that is a problem in itself.