Emphasis on the title: Professor (Was: Who calls Voldemort "Lord")

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Zoe C:

> > Did you not refer to your teachers by their last 
> > names?  We all did -

Ceridwen:

> We did the same thing.  A couple of teachers wanted to be addressed 
> familiarily (this was the early 70s),

houyhnhnm:

That reminds me of a humorous incident that took place my first year
of teaching.

A boy came to my room after school for some tutoring.  The janitor
happened to be cleaning the room at the time.  "Hey, dog!" the boy
cried out as he came through the door.  The janitor was outraged and
chewed the boy out for disrespecting a teacher.  "I wasn't talking to
her; I was talking to you," the boy protested.  "Well, then, I'm
Mister Dog to you," said the janitor.

Certainly I called teachers by their last names (sans title) when I
was in school--behind their backs, never to their faces. I overhear
students in the halls referring to teachers by sirname only, and by
less complimentary epithets as well, but I've never had a student do
it to my face and I teach in an urban district where the kids are
pretty fresh.