It's a good thing GTiM is not a lecturer of mine...I'd get my brother Busta (surname: Capp) to have a go.
Capt. Midnight: I too was born and raised in what others call a ghetto but I merely term it a lower-middle class suburb of Los angeles. I guess I eaute "ghetto" with multi-storey red-brick tenements popular in eastern American metroplis. My bumpkin relatives in North Carolina liked to tease my niece, also from Compton, by calling her and her behaviour "ghetto."
Of course, I'd have none of this abuse heaped on my beautiful niece by these sybling-shagging, cow-pat kicking, slack-jawed yokels. They didn't like MY abuse, but since I was packing my Mac10 (j/k) they had to swallow their onjections and keep quiet.
No-one says that those from deprived upbringings have to have the linguistic talents of a Shakespeare, a Milton, or even flavour of the month, Dan Brown, but a basic command of one's mother tongue should not be too difficult to achieve and maintain. Surely?
It is beyond anyone's power to avoid being born into a world of shit, but it is within every one of them to leave that pond of crap and seek out a pool filled with something better, something pleasant.
Thanks for reading.
p.s. please review your possible overuse of the word, "that." If it doesn't add anything, or if the sentence still makes sense without it, leave it out.