To think this Spanish teacher probably can't speak Spanish?

[Burnt0utMum]

DD has recently started an online Spanish class. First week was fine, all very basic stuff and she enjoyed it so signed her up for the rest of the term (which was only 2 lessons). Her 2nd lesson was last week. She was doing the lesson on her tablet and I could overhear. My Spanish is pretty basic but I do know a reasonable amount of vocab and grammar. The teacher taught the children some individual words, then started forming sentences. Now here's what I think was wrong. English: The child is shouting. Teacher said in Spanish: El niño es gritando. English: The children are shouting. Teacher said in Spanish: Los niños son gritando. Can any Spanish speakers confirm if this can ever be correct? Or should it have been está and están? Aibu to discontinue the lessons after this term as it seem the teacher is teaching incorrect grammar? I don't want to have to be teaching DD differently after the lesson. I enrolled her in a class precisely because my Spanish isn't good enough to teach her but it seems the teacher's isn't either.

This is very basic and not something the teacher should be getting wrong.

El niño es gritando would be some sort of existential state perhaps in Purgatory where a child continually shouts forever and ever in an endless cycle.
Sounds a bit like AIBU.

I'm only approaching the end of my second year of Spanish and I know that you're right and the teacher is wrong.

That’s pretty advanced for a second lesson...

I didn't actually think about how advanced it was for a beginner but it's a good point.

Reminds me of this...

It should be estan (can't do accents on laptop). Some aspects of knowing when you use "ser" and when you use "estar" are tricky. (you use "estar muerto" when most of us would agree it's a pretty permanent state)

But not in this case. estar plus the gerundio of the verb (the ando ending) is the present continuous tense. Beginners are usually taught starting with the present tense - el chico grita - the boy shouts.

So yeah, crappy teacher. Profesor bastante flojo.

Also agree that I would expect beginners - especially children - to be starting with Me llamo, como te llamas, tengo diez anos, vivo en Londres... Me gusta/No me gusta

Numbers, colors, food.