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OK, first off, I am glad this is a fun discussion and not a bitter argument, because we're all friends.
Secondly, !@#$%!, I had no idea you were not a native English speaker. Awesome. You're one of the best writers on this board!
I actually have no problem with people teaching in whatever dialect dominates the region the students and teachers live in, but a standardized form of "common English" needs to be learned as well. That way we can all understand each other.
Dialects proved problematic for certain jobs, like ambulance drivers communicating with dispatchers, etc. There is a particular standard of speech that is followed as radio protocol in jobs like that. I don't see how learning "standard english" for writing, for news broadcasts, etc is difficult or problematic.
Teaching in a language that gives people the most education they can absorb is important, but we all live in the same country and it's important to have a universal standard so we can communicate effectively between regions and subcultures.
If you grow up speaking an English dialect in an English speaking country, standard English is hardly a "challenge" to learn to use when you need to use it.
That's all I'm saying.
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