First thing I though of, too. To a brigadier General.
Posted on 08/24/2018 10:55:52 AM PDT by Simon Green
>> Connie Wells?
No, Zenira Oden. You need to scroll down to get to the 5th grade teachers. She looks a little butch to me.
My husband’s grandchildren insist upon calling me by my first name. I have told them, in their mother’s presence, that they may call me, Grandma, Granny, Grandmother, GG, or even Mrs. -——. Went absolutely nowhere. This, after nearly 17 years. The oldest one’s 25, so it’s not like they haven’t had time to get to know me. And, honest, I’m not the wicked step-grandmother. My own grandchildren here expected to call my husband Grandpa, and they do. And if the ones who live far away, and don’t see us very often, forget, they are instantly reminded, and correct themselves. I’m not a formal person, but unless I give permission, grandchildren should address grandparents as such, IMHO.
I was raised in a military family, and we were required to address all adult females as Ma’am and all adult males as Sir.
And I still do to this day..
When I was a kid if my father was talking to me and required an answer, if I answered insolently with a simple yes or no, my father would lower his voice to a growl and say “Yes, WHAT?”
That’s hilarious! I was sending that link to my brothers and sisters!
I’m from the north, and that’s how I was taught. Granted, we were military family, but it wasn’t a northern or southern thing for us.
It was manners.
I have never, never understood the concept children calling their parents by their first names. It seem completely weird to me as a kid, and seems just this weird today.
This story is missing something.
It just doesn’t sound like we are hearing the whole story. Especially when it was added that the kid was having mental issues.
And it never indicated why the teacher found the term to be inappropriate.
"Yes, ma'am. I have received the paper you instructed by son to have signed, ma'am. And I'm pleased to report that I have rewarded him with extra allowance for his gentlemanly conduct, even if it was directed toward a female unworthy of it.
Ma'am."
First thing I though of, too. To a brigadier General.
I know what you mean. But I know at the special ed school where my son teaches, the kids are encouraged to call their teachers by their first names. I think it’s wrong, but I don’t own the school. It really seems disrespectful, to me.
North East Carolina Preparatory School
274 Husky Trail
Tarboro, NC 27886
Phone: (252) 641-0464
Fax: (252) 641-1816
Email: contactus@necprepschool.com
You can also write thru the school’s contact page:
https://www.necprepschool.com/contact
Hotlinks to these people’s emails are also at the contact page link:
https://www.necprepschool.com/contact
Executive Director: William Etheridge
K-7 Principal: Cynthia Dawes
I recommend the kid adopt "Teach" as an appropriate replacement for "Ma'am".
After all, like Senator Boxer, she's earned her title.
I’m really curious how the (hopefully former) teacher wanted to be addressed.
Well she did tell him not to call her Ma’am and he kept doing it, so?
I used to think that it was just people being unaware of what the public schools were doing to their kids and do the Republic. It has been going on too long now and the information has been too easily known. There is no excuse any more at all.
I read the entire web site. Looks to be about half white, half black, both kids and faculty/staff.
Thank you!!
before or after he warmed yer azz?
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