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I took Spanish-for-Spanish-Speakers in public school so my experience may be different.
“Spanish-Spanish” (Castillian-Spanish, Castellano) is pretty easy universally understood and accepted as a “proper” Spanish. It seemed to work well despite our mixed nationalities in the class (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and a few more but those are first that came to mind.)
We learned American Spanish when I was in school, no vosotros, no soft S, because we learned it from Cuban teachers. My kids got a mix but mostly, as you are saying, Spain Spanish. I think part of the reason is that Spain Spanish is one thing - canonical Spanish, yes? But in the Americas it's varied, different in the US from Mexico, from Colombia, from Argentina, Costa Rica. Dialects.
I think it's silly to say that Spain Spanish is canonical, though. Like, says who? Spanish people? Spanish in Spain is a dialect just like any other Spanish-speaking country. Imo it makes sense to teach the dialect that learners are most likely to encounter based on their geographic location, with context about the other dialects.
Like many others have stated, my (also redneck) school taught primarily Mexican Spanish.
I don't know for sure what we learned, but I remember my Spanish teacher talking about a girl from Spain that came to her class and didn't do her work.
Apparently the girl wasn't doing well in Spanish class and later accused the teacher of teaching "gutter Mexican."
Which ... honestly didn't hit me as the flex my Spanish teacher seemed to be making it out to be.
TIL there are two versions of spanish.
A lot more than two. Even within Latin America, there are some fairly interesting differences in grammar, vocab, and pronunciation.
Idk which variant of spanish I'm learning, but the teachers keep playing the Cinco de Mayo cartoon something about the day of the dead, so I'm assuming its the Mexico version.
The tipoffs to being Spain Spanish if they teach extra conjugations for vosotros and if they speak evening with a lisp because at some point it was decided to emulate a king with a speech impediment.
Do they? Duolingo, meanwhile, teaches a Latin American dialect (possibly Mexican), with “ustedes” as the second-person plural. (IIRC, their Portuguese is also Brazilian, which is a greater leap.)
Does it? My partner has learned some very strange words I have never heard used in mexico. But I guess the rest of Latin America also uses different dialects.
From what I recall, it does, especially for new words (items like “backpack” and “T-shirt” seem to have almost a different word in each country). Maybe Duolingo’s Spanish is from former south (Argentina or Chile perhaps?)
No answers from me here, but I'm curious - how much of the US learns Spanish in school?
My knowledge may be dated and it may vary by state, but the "I want to go to uni" track had a two-year requirement of a foreign language. When I was in school, French and Spanish were the only choices and most people wanted to study Spanish. My school system had German as well at some point, but it was cut before I got into highschool in the mid '90s. Some schools have Latin, Japanese, and others as well.
Here in the upper mid west a lot of schools teach Spanish. Not at a you can speak level usually. Similar to how a lot of people learn biology and forget it all when they graduate.
In my state there was some reason they wanted us all to take a second language (I think it was some scholarship we would qualify for our something?) and I always thought the reason most schools had Spanish was because finding a teacher certificated to teach Spanish was more common than other languages. And both of mine were just Midwest white dudes.
I live in a medium size town in the midwest, and all of our schools offered Spanish. My high school also had french, and the richer schools had german and japanese
I've never heard of that in the states. What region are you referring to? Sounds like an eastern seaboard thing to me.
I think it depends more on your instructor rather than the region you're in. When I was in HS I took two years of Spanish and our teacher was from Spain, so her instruction was in line with that.
I don't know about OP. I went to a public school on the eastern seaboard and we certainly weren't taught "Spain Spanish." The pronunciations and pronouns we were taught would've been very different if that were the case.
If any specific dialect was taught in those classrooms, it would've been because a teacher spoke that dialect natively. All of our teachers were either non-native Spanish speakers, or from somewhere in Central or South America. Maybe OP had teachers from Europe?
If there were regional differences for vocabulary, we were told about them. For example, for the English word "bus," we were taught that "autobus," "guagua," and "camion" all work but in different countries/regions. To be clear, we weren't expected to remember all the variations, but we were informed that they exist.
If they would only do the same with their "English".