Calling a Teacher SIr or Miss is Sexist?

[Anonymous]

Did anyone see the item in the press about some "academics" who consider that "Calling teachers "Sir" or "Miss" is depressing, sexist and gives women in schools a lower status than their male counterparts."?

Whatever happened to teaching children respect  - for authority, for parents, for their elders?  And I mean proper respect - I am not espousing any sort of Dotheboys Hall regime of cruelty.  As I heard someone say recently how can we expect to bring up a generation that can give orders if they have never been taught how to respect and obey authority?

Gerry

[Anonymous]

I can remember having to stand up when the teacher came into the classroom and I had no problem calling them Miss, Mrs or Mr - I didn't think of them any differently!

This is all going too far.  I hate, hate, hate being called Ms and always referred to myself as Miss.  When I got married I took my husband's name but that's wrong to some people!

[adamtemp64]

this is another example of political correctness gone bad!

[Anonymous]

An interesting subject Gerry.

We used Sir or Miss like most.

Times are changing and we either move with the times or not.

A matter of choice.

[Anonymous]

Well that's just part of the problem @Anonymous - political correctness is NOT a  matter of choice. In the modern "liberal dispensation" we dare to be different at the risk of persecution if not prosecution.  When everything is held to be "right" and "acceptable" it is hardly surprising that standards of behaviour and morality have sunk to a very low level.

Oops!  Almost fell off my soap box just then.  Time to take a pill methinks.

Gerry

[Anonymous]

Children are IMO are partly moulded by their parents outlook and views.

If I feel something is not right then persecution or not I'll make my stand.

No soapbox just ones perceptions.

[Anonymous]

I really DON'T think teachers should be called by their first name etc. Either Sir or Miss or Mr / Miss / Mrs Surname yes.

There needs to be a line of respect in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

I'm not much of a supporter of political correct-ness as I think in our society it has gone too far

In my day at school was either Sir/Mrs/Miss 

& I think that should be the same today

I took my husbands name when I was married & was proud to be a Mrs

after a few years of being divorced I went back to my maiden name & being called Miss

its like some people prefer to be called the 'chair' of a group/meeting - to me a chair is something you sit on

I'm very, very unlikely to be chairing a meeting, but if I were, I would wish to be called chairman

WispaRed7 

[Cleoriff]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Well that's just part of the problem @Anonymous - political correctness is NOT a  matter of choice. In the modern "liberal dispensation" we dare to be different at the risk of persecution if not prosecution.  When everything is held to be "right" and "acceptable" it is hardly surprising that standards of behaviour and morality have sunk to a very low level.

Oops!  Almost fell off my soap box just then.  Time to take a pill methinks.

Gerry

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Oh please do not get off the soapbox @Anonymous .I would quite happily join you saying pretty much the same

thing.

I vowed when I was much younger, I would NEVER say 'Well in my day'..... Now at my age, I find myself

saying it often!!  (Much to my horror)

There is an old saying..If it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I find nowadays there are far too many people attempting

to fix or change things for no apparent reason!

[anticpated]

They should just be addressed as "Yo Blud, I has a question fo ya innit".