[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: using 'Miss'

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amy Z 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:31 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: using 'Miss'


  Wren wrote:


  > Where I live in the northeast, everyone uses first names.  Teachers 
  are
  > called mostly by their first name, or occaisonally Mrs. or Mr. No 
  teachers
  > are ever called Miss. I think the rule is that if you are old 
  enough to want
  > to be formal, they figure you are married. Children call their 
  friends'
  > parents by their first names, always

  I grew up in the Northeast, and my experience was very different.  I 
  had very few friends whose parents wanted to be called by their first 
  names--none until I was in high school--and teachers were always 
  given their titles.  We called the unmarried women teachers Miss, the 
  married Mrs.

  I am 32, so perhaps things have changed a lot.  

  Amy Z


  That was my experience too, growing up in Maryland.  I never called any of my teachers or friends' parents by their first names.  It was always Miss, Mrs. or Mr.  At the school where I teach, the students call us by our first names, but hearing other teachers talk and from hearing my students talk about their past schools, this seems to be very much the exception. When alumni come back to tell us about how things are going in highschool, they always refer to their teachers as Miss, Mrs, or Mr. Lastname...or sometimes "Coach."  

  ender
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