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<A title=aiz24@hotmail.com href="mailto:aiz24@hotmail.com">Amy Z</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:31
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: using
'Miss'</DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Wren wrote:<BR><BR><BR>> Where I live in the northeast, everyone
uses first names. Teachers <BR>are<BR>>; called mostly by their first
name, or occaisonally Mrs. or Mr. No <BR>teachers<BR>> are ever called
Miss. I think the rule is that if you are old <BR>enough to want<BR>> to be
formal, they figure you are married. Children call their <BR>friends'<BR>>
parents by their first names, always<BR><BR>I grew up in the Northeast, and my
experience was very different. I <BR>had very few friends whose parents
wanted to be called by their first <BR>names--none until I was in high
school--and teachers were always <BR>given their titles. We called the
unmarried women teachers Miss, the <BR>married Mrs.<BR><BR>I am 32, so perhaps
things have changed a lot. <BR><BR>Amy Z</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>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." </TT></DIV>
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