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Context matters, to your friends or friends parents, probably okay. To someone you should be showing respect like teachers, probably never going to go over well.
It was like this. I made a mistake in an excersize and said "oh crap". Although you are right not to say that to a teacher, but saying it the way I did should be fine, right?
More the location at that point, that’s schoolyard talk not classroom at that point. But out of earshot in the school yard too haha
It's a little extreme but not unheard of for folks to be upset with, especially in classroom settings.
Knowing that English is a second language for you, she's probably trying to help you!
Maybe assume that your English teacher knows a bit more about the language and how and when to use it than you.