When I was growing up, most of my teachers were called by their first names, but I know that this is not true in all schools.
When I was growing up, most of my teachers were called by their first names, but I know that this is not true in all schools.
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Always called teachers by their last names up until I got to college
Quaker schools tend to do first names while public, most private, and catholic schools do it more formally.
It was always Mr/Mrs/Ms for the lay teachers, and Sister/Brother for the nuns or…monks—? We called them “brothers”, I don’t know if they were monks. Most wore cassocks.
Shit, I had never thought of that.
I think the only (pre-college) teacher I didn’t call by their last name was my high school Japanese teacher, who was “Sensei.”
Interestingly, when I was a middle school English teacher in Japan, three of the teachers had the same last name, so the student called them FirstName Sensei. My students called me FirstName Sensei as well.
Last name exclusively, all the way through law school
Never first names until maybe a few college courses with the exception of something like a preschool/kindergarten teacher being “Miss Abby” or something like that.
First names in preschool, last names up till college if they allow it
Last name. Most the time I didn’t even know their first name.
If someone had a really complicated last name they could have been Mr./Mrs/Ms. First Name, but never just their first name.
Mr or ms Last name. Unless they had a strong preference that you call them something else. Typically at the start of the year they will write their name on the board and whatever they write is what your supposed to call them
Last name.
Last name, and I would still call them by their last name 20+ years later.
I don’t think I ever had a teacher who asked students to call them by their first name until I was in college, and even that was an exception.
Through high school, teachers were almost always called by Mr/Mrs/Ms and their last name. I can only think of 1 teacher that was called by their first name on a regular basis.
In college…it was a bit of a mixed bag. In class, we’d often call them by Professor or Dr Last Name. When class was done, some professors we’d call by their first name, others we didn’t dare. It depended on the relationship we had with them.
Never by their first name, always by Mr/Mrs/Miss/Coach and their last name.
Ms/Mr Last Name. The only time a first name was used (outside of college) was with the nuns, but that always included their title, eg: Sister Bernadette.
Had a few teachers in undergrad and beyond who insisted on Mr/Professor/Doctor Last Name, but most were fine with us using their first name.
K-12, we called teachers by their last names. In college, it was first names unless we had an older, more established professor who always preferred “Dr. Last Name.” The younger professors and instructors preferred first name usage.
Last name. Mr or Ms/Mrs whatever
It was always Ms, Mrs, or Mr (insert last name)
Mr/Mrs/Miss last name. At least until college, then it was Professor last name.
This made me remember an argument from kindergarten. After school I went to the daycare that my grandmother owned because my mom worked there. One of the kids insisted that my mom was Miss MyLastName because my grandmother (her mother-in-law) was Mrs. MyLastName and there couldn’t possibly be 2 Mrs. with the same name.
I called all of my teachers by their last names. Even my cousin, when she was a teacher’s aide in my class. But that was so weird to me that I just avoided talking to her at school.
My sister is a preschool teacher and has her students call her by her first name. Even her son did that, and to this day he still calls both of his parents by their first names.