Is it acceptable for a Year 10 English teacher to say this?

[AreolaGrande]

"Where was you up to?"

Said to a student in relation to a text.

YABU = yes, it is acceptable
YANBU = no, it is not acceptable.

[echt]

I think teachers should speak Standard English in the classroom, but what do you want to do about it?

[Newrumpus]

Said once or said repeatedly?

[ThursdayTomorrow]

Yes it’s acceptable. Everyone makes mistakes. Maybe she is menopausal and has brain fog. Or maybe he was distracted because of a problem at home. Maybe they were meaning to say one sentence and changed halfway through and it came out wrong. Who knows?
Have you never made a trivial mistake OP? Let it go.

[CinnamonJellyBeans]

Shocking! Ask for a refund of the fees you paid.

[Whateveer]

Couldn't get worked up about it

[TheGiantEmperor]

Burn her at the stake!

[MultiplaLight]

Shoot her at dawn, there is no other way.

Seriously get over yourself.

[notyouagainbantu]

It's Yorkshire dialect, not ideal in an English class but no worse that 'we was sat' which is used all the time.

[SarahAndQuack]

Don't you think she might have been being colloquial?

I had a wonderful English teacher - Irish by birth - who'd often go into broad Irish to break the mood when we were all getting bogged down in a text. Out of the whole class who did A Level with her, only two of us didn't get A grades. I'm nearly 40 and still have fond memories of Ms C finding yet another way to make us sit up and concentrate!

[Geppili]

Who told you this? Or did you hear it yourself?

[Rosestulips]

@notyouagainbantu

It's Yorkshire dialect, not ideal in an English class but no worse that 'we was sat' which is used all the time.

I’ve heard Essex people ( those towie people) say it too

[RightOnTheEdge]

Oh, I couldn't care less 😒

[thistimelastweek]

Would it be better or worse if a year 6 English teacher said it?

[lazyarse123]

@notyouagainbantu

It's Yorkshire dialect, not ideal in an English class but no worse that 'we was sat' which is used all the time.

It's absolutely not Yorkshire dialect. I'm as Yorkshire as you could get and I would never say that.

[Spinet]

It's dialect even if not Yorkshire. I'd be annoyed if a teacher wrote it, but saying it? No. Teachers are human beings modelling human behaviour not standard English robots.

[LordSnot]

Not acceptable but par for the course with the teaching recruitment crisis. Schools can't afford to demand basic standards of literacy from teachers.

[marshmallowfinder]

@notyouagainbantu

It's Yorkshire dialect, not ideal in an English class but no worse that 'we was sat' which is used all the time.

Not by English teachers though.

[marshmallowfinder]

I think it's pretty awful for an English teacher to have said. They are there to teach correct English.

[kezzykicks]

I live in Essex and it's common here, it's just dialect. If the teacher is otherwise good I wouldn't care personally.

[Scarletttulips]

Burn her at the stake!

Just once?

Wonder if she judges your parenting?

[Alloveragain3]

I wouldn't be happy tbh

[CelesteCunningham]

Regional dialect used when speaking informally? Absolutely fine, I'm sure she wouldn't use it in writing.

It would be a shame for all the regional quirks to die out. Also a shame for classrooms to be overly formal - especially in a subject like English where everyone benefits from free flowing discussion.

[Slippersandrum]

I would also be unimpressed

[RosesAndHellebores]

My dd is an English teacher. She would not say that. I would not have been impressed if either of my children's teachers had. They were switched from state to private because of similar aberrations.

[BoneshakerBike]

@LordSnot

Not acceptable but par for the course with the teaching recruitment crisis. Schools can't afford to demand basic standards of literacy from teachers.

Literacy is reading and writing
Do you mean Oracy?