AIBU to feedback to school about teachers use of glottal stops

[TalomaPaith]

Children at Dcs school are split into different groups for phonics.

Parents are sometimes invited to watch lessons. I observed a lesson by a teacher using glottal stops I.e Let'er instead of letter.

Would IBU to mention this?

Yes

Only if “letter” was one of the words they were learning to decode.

Are they Scottish

YANBU

Do people really care about this stuff? It's all down to regional accents, isn't it? I wouldn't even be bothered, to be honest. It's fine.

It’s a regional dialect. Would you also complain about short vowel sounds for Northerners?

No advice but my autistic dd (6) has some Essex-y teachers

She has a few words and one of them is 'wawwwtah'

😄😄😄 I find it funny 🤷‍♀️

Yes, please do it in writing, so they can then feed back to you that you don't use apostrophes and hopefully remember that only other qualified teachers should be observing lessons.

In the words of Supernanny, “it’s naw accept-a-baw”

If this is your main concern in life OP then I would like to swap lives!

I lived in Glasgow for a long time, and one side of my family are Scottish, and always found Scots would pronounce this very clearly, not missing a t sound. Which Scottish accent doesn't?

It wasn't

How DO phonics work with regional and local accents?? Always wondered that.

I am a qualified teacher. Luckily I'm not teaching I'm on an online forum so it's not an issue

South east

If you are a qualified teacher why aren’t you sure whether to say anything or not? Why you askin’ Mumsnet?

I'm usually behind teachers lead by example, modelling correct English and grammer. But, isn't this just an accent thing? You can't police accent. It’s not wrong or lazy it’s just how certain speech patterns have evolved over time, especially working-class ones. Criticising them is a subtle (or not so subtle) form of classism.

Christ, I just wish I could get teachers at my dc’s schools to send home a document (homework, etc) without loads of misspellings. 😂 It’s so bad.

My primary school one got whacked in the head with a ball last week and we received an incident form sent home. I counted 5 misspelled words on the form. I don’t mean what the teacher completed. I mean the actual form itself that is used across all 15 schools in the trust. Things like “date of bird” and “name of scpool” (instead of school). It’s bad. Everything is like that. The secondary school is even worse, which is embarrassing because even my 12 year old points out all the misspelled words. Or even worse comes and asks me what a word means and I’m like, that’s not even a real word! 🤣

Oy, not all Scots use a glottal stop.

When I was doing teacher training they said that regional accents were fine but words should be enunciated properly. So yes it’s a concern, but if your DC are thriving and doing ok I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it.

It's painful especially when you are pedantic as I am. However this is the first of many, many teachers your child will have and you need to smile and ignore. They may well be an excellent teacher in spite of language skills. Your child will know the difference. Mine managed to grow up not copying the speech of their teachers.
If you complain to the school I guarantee that teacher will not change their speech habits but you will be that parent.

Where I am (central belt) it's quite common to drop the T in water, and other words.

Phonics, ours is slightly different in some letters. We say 'ti' not 'tuh' for T for example.

Very very very unreasonable.

I could not cope with that! Who are they hiring?!

This is common in a Dorset accent too.

Go ahead if you want all of the teachers to take the piss out of you behind your back.