Why do many of my colleagues neglect teaching IPA, instead they maintain their RP?

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Miloud Bekkar

Indeed, I gave two of your arguments to a colleague specialized in teaching RP and he was simply against IPA. May be your reasons are the secret.

Yulia Nenasheva

I am not sure I understand how IPA being a system of phonetic symbols equals to RP being a variant of spoken language. Sounds of RP are represented by IPA symbols in any dictionary (may be not Webster`s)

thank you