Never really a problem, except that Sicilians did not speak proper Italian for a long time, it was broken dialect. Sicilian children that go to grammer school are taught proper Italian now a days.
Children in Sicily were
always taught proper Italian in school. The difference, is that way back when, kids wouldn't go past grammAr school, so they only really spoke what they heard around the house, which naturally, was dialect.
Yup that's true.
It was like that in other regions in the South of Italy as well.
Kids would go to school generally up until late elementary school like what we'd call 5th grade, and then they would work either for their parents or get a job and help support their family.
It was like this in the United States too though a very long time ago where people would stop going to school in late elementary, jr. highschool, or as soon as they could in highschool and get a job to support their family.
