What are the certain privileges the Ewells get in To Kill a Mockingbird?

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He said that the Ewells were members of an exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the commonfolk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells’ activities. They didn’t have to go to school, for one thing. Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell, Burris’s father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season.