AIBU to expect educational professionals to use correct grammar when talking to children?

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Everytime I hear a childminder, teacher or teaching assistant in a professional context using phrases like 'I seen it' or 'I done it', it totally grates on me. Is it the inevitable march of language, or am I justified in my annoyance?

Childminders are not educational professionals and have a few weeks of training iirc. That's not to say that many of them aren't very educated and use correct grammar, but your expectations may be a little high.

With teachers you are justified and in fact, this very thing is picked up on in teaching crits when you are a student, as is poor diction.

Her expectations may be a little high? Lol
Now that has made me laugh ha ha ha.

Maybe not CM's but teachers and teaching assistants needs to be able to talk 'proper' surely lol lol

I always read to my daughter at night in my poshest voice

You isn't being unreasonable.

winds me up no end. also used to get annoyed with spelling mistakes in DS's nursery diary. eg, "snack - scone and raisens" !!!!!!!!!

No she aint lol

God knows how our deputy head got through her teaching practice then. She constantly says 'eefos' for 'ethos', 'Eefan' instead of 'Ethan' and 'Maffs' instead of 'Maths'. Drives us all mental!

YANBU- they should learn to speak proper like what I does

Duurrrr - like what I do!!
I teach secondary children the joy what is English. If I had to correct their grammar I would get nuffink done
I do make the effort though, they listen and then discard. Will keep trying....

I have a teacher friend who often talks about 'mute points'. Don't have the heart to tell her that she means 'moot'!

Erm since the start of September 2008 Childminders are educational professionals

YANBU

Especially teachers/teaching assistants.

Feenie, your teachers version of Efan & maffs could be regional accent/dialect rather than lack of intellect.

Bloody is not, she is from Leeds, like the rest of us, AND she would have to teach the phoneme 'th' to Key Stage 1, even if it was regional (which it is not).

Sorry Feenie just a thought! I grew up in east London thinking that I didn't have an accent. I got a huge shock when i moved out of London to go to College & I was treated like a complete thicko purely because my frequesnt use of words like Maffs.

Obviously i'm much improved now, I fink

Sorry, didn't mean to jump down your froat!

No problem, you didn't. Me finks I must get that chip of me showder.

DS1's year 1 teacher always writes "Well done -- your learning to write stories", or "your managing to add numbers", etc, in his homework books. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH.

ooh my hubby and I are GS teachers (I went to v posh girls school he went to v bad sink school ) and this morning he said "I ain't got time for this" to the kids and it made me cringe!

Omg, tell her!

justified but it's becoming increasingly common as the younger professionals who weren't taught proper like what we was come through.

I get annoyed too with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in DS's nursery diary...

'I done my handprints today'

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've said "I done that" but I took great delight in correcting another teacher's use of English terms (she was my arch nemesis!) she had taught her kids about "Hyper bowl" she chuffin meant hyperbole! Carried me through many bleak times I can tell you.

The use of /f/ instead of /th/ is just pronunciation. It might be laziness but it could just as easily be a speech impediment. IMO, it's not in the same league as 'I done' etc which is poor grammar (except possibly in certain regional dialects).

LMAO at 'Hyber Bowl' and 'mute point' though