Excellent. Swing the pendulum back to normalcy.
My brother teaches high school. He has taken the position of only using last name or just pointing and saying “you.”
It’s not that he doesn’t like the students, he just knows that if he uses the wrong term he gets fired.
If a mentally disturbed boy thinks his name is Sally and the parents agree and he call him John, he’s fired.
If a mentally disturbed boy thinks he’s a girl and the parents disagree and he calls him Sally, he’s fired.
I was being interviewed at a trade show the other day and we were shooting a video for them to use for their social media. I hadn’t met the interviewer or the cameraman before. At one point I suggested the camera operator come for a close up and used the name on the nametag. As “she” got a little closer, I realized her parents didn’t name him Natalie.
Ick. I actually felt weird using his/her name.
“My brother teaches high school. He has taken the position of only using last name or just pointing and saying “you.”.
Very military solution! Soldiers name tags only have last names and if can’t read it “You” works fine.
In High school a good many of my instructors
were former military. In class most all used my last name
only.