I think it is important for us as future and even current instructors to pay closer attention to some of the ideas presented in class.  Several students articulated that at times they were treated as pariahs in their own environment for seeking academic success. This does speak to a larger, perhaps even systematic, issues.  Why is it that people in poverty stricken neighborhoods equate education and mastery of English, or any subject for that matter, as being snotty?  One would think that people have grown beyond that perspective.  But apparently it hasn't.  I think that I will be challenged, as a future instructor, to develop discussions and assignments to assist students to dissolve the putrid idea that academic success means disconnection from one's culture.  Actually, it should be the opposite.