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.

No!! Cringey! Yes know your audience but being down with the kids is patronising and they find it cringey.
I am a teacher -not English- and I don’t use the excuse of ‘menopausal brain fog’ to be unprofessional-which this is.

It’s a regional variant. You might want to google the difference between ’langue’ and ‘parole’.

I think this is the only option here

I started a thread a few years ago and got blasted. DTs head used to say 'we was going', 'what was you doing'. Hate it.

It's not a regional variant here, and he is from here, it's lazy and incorrect.

If they teach English, they are presumably fully aware that there are different modes of English for different settings and that grammar shifts in different dialects. There's a difference between the language people use in casual speech, and the language people use in an essay. Understanding those differences and being able to switch modes is an important element of language development.

So yes, it's perfectly 'acceptable' to say 'Where was you up to?' in a casual conversation with a pupil during a lesson.

I have a degree in English and my living is mostly writing and editing. I've also got a strong accent and there are various dialect elements to my casual speech. I would say something like 'He weren't too happy about it' in a relaxed team meeting with my colleagues. If I was having a more formal conversation with people I didn't know as well, or writing an email, I'd say 'He wasn't very happy about it'.

As always in these threads, I see that it's the people who think they are well-educated because they know what's 'correct' who are inadvertently revealing themselves to be extremely ignorant about linguistics.

And people wonder why teachers are leaving the profession every term! Be grateful your child knows the difference for formal English.

Not acceptable for any year group, no.

Given the recruitment crisis it’s unsurprising, so brace yourself for more of the same.

Different parts of Britain have different ways of speaking.

It's not correct but cant get worked up about it

@Coincidentally speak for yourself - they might find it cringey when you do it 😂