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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And btw, foreign language does NOT have to be taught by a native speaker.[/quote]
No. But it's highly preferred. The exception is university professors with highly specialized skills (phonetics, history of the language etc)

--signed former language student[/quote]

And all the mistakes OP refers to would not be made by a native speaker.  But for instance, you can be taught Spanish by someone from Argentina or Mexico and it will sound completely different, include different idioms, and even additional verb conjugations (Vos, Vosotros), but you will learn the language if the teacher can teach.

The problem here appears that the teacher does not know the language s/he is teaching.  That is not fixable.

We are at a great charter school and have been through 4 Spanish teachers in three years, and my child has not learned much.  But we are not in a school where she can switch languages after her initial choice.  And she is getting good grades.  Unlike English, which she has to learn now, Spanish can be learned later on.  If this class is your only worry you have truly landed in  a very lucky place.  But if you are going to go to anyone, go to the principal, preferably with some additional parents, at least one of them a native speaker.........  If these errors are so glaring, and so prevalent, the teacher is probably not capable of fixing them, at least when speaking to the class...........
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