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'Call female teachers SIR'

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  • #62
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    What's "teacher" in Spanish? :)

    Profesor/Profesora. They call their teacher "Profe". No sir or miss here in schools as far as I know.

    I'm not a proper teacher either, so I insist on using my first name when I work in schools.


    The only reason why the call me "Teacher" is because my name is almost identical to a Spanish male name and they can't bring themselves to say it without laughing. :(;):D


  • #63
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Profesor/Profesora.
    The only reason why the call me "Teacher" is because my name is almost identical to a Spanish male name and they can't bring themselves to say it without laughing. :(;):D

    There are Spanish males called Legs? :confused:


  • #64
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Profesor/Profesora. They call their teacher "Profe". No sir or madam here in schools as far as I know.





    The only reason why the call me "Teacher" is because my name is almost identical to a Spanish male name and they can't bring themselves to say it without laughing. :(;):D

    A friend of mine taught English (TEFL) in Chile, and the children called him "Tio" - which I thought was rather sweet, and makes sense if you want education to be on a less authoritarian footing than "Sir/Miss/Ms".


  • #65
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Muise... wrote: »
    A friend of mine taught English (TEFL) in Chile, and the children called him "Tio" - which I thought was rather sweet, and makes sense if you want education to be on a less authoritarian footing than "Sir/Miss/Ms".

    was his name Tio by any chance?


  • #66
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Boombastic wrote: »
    was his name Tio by any chance?

    Well, his nickname. His given name was Tia Maria.


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  • #67
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    "Sir, would you please stop waving your bra and hairy armpits in our face, and would you ever go and shave your legs, there's a good Sir"


  • #68
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Muise... wrote: »
    Well, his nickname. His given name was Tia Maria.

    where Jack Daniels and the blue nun his parents?


  • #69
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    ryan101 wrote: »
    "Sir, would you please stop waving your bra and hairy armpits in our face, and would you ever go and shave your legs, there's a good Sir"

    "where the fcuk did you go to school?"


  • #70
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    Muise... wrote: »
    "where the fcuk did you go to school?"

    "your ma's"


  • #71
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Would teachers object if they were called "Gorgeous"?

    as in "Hey Gorgeous, here's my homework"


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  • #72
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Academic feminists display a moderately radical side and come out with batsh1t crazy idea shocker

    Look, we've known for a long time that there are bastions within academic feminism that are radically detached from any sort of reality. The big question is why they haven't been marginalised and left to rot at this stage (dunno maybe they've managed to slot some graduates into influential positions)


  • #73
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    tritium wrote: »
    Academic feminists display a moderately radical side and come out with batsh1t crazy idea shocker

    Look, we've known for a long time that there are bastions within academic feminism that are radically detached from any sort of reality. The big question is why they haven't been marginalised and left to rot at this stage (dunno maybe they've managed to slot some graduates into influential positions)
    And here is where I invoke my earlier post, by asking you to prove your generalization about academic feminists, without relying purely on anecdote's (i.e. use actual empirical stats), or assertions "well it's obvious!".

    My guess is, you can't.


  • #74
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    tritium wrote: »
    Academic feminists display a moderately radical side and come out with batsh1t crazy idea shocker

    Look, we've known for a long time that there are bastions within academic feminism that are radically detached from any sort of reality. The big question is why they haven't been marginalised and left to rot at this stage (dunno maybe they've managed to slot some graduates into influential positions)

    I think being a bastion within academia is being marginalised and left out to rot, tbh... :pac:


  • #75
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    py2006 wrote: »
    There are Spanish males called Legs? :confused:

    My name is Pablo.


  • #76
    AdolfHipster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭AdolfHipster


    Nothing but PC Thugs.....honey, I've been called a greasy thug a bunch of times.


  • #77
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,763 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    py2006 wrote: »
    'Call female teachers SIR', demand feminist academics in bid to end 'sexist' culture in the classroom

    For






    Fuck






    Sake



    :rolleyes:


  • #78
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    My name is Pablo.


    Phew, that's not half as odd as what I was thinking -


    "Juan", as in "Juan Kerr"... :eek:


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    "Juan", as in "Juan Kerr"... :eek:


    You've heard Juan, you've heard them all.


  • #80
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I don't normally use text speak online but I'm making a special exception for this bulls*it, so here goes PMSL at the thought of calling a female teacher Sir:D


  • #81
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    I wasn't even aware of a 'sexist culture in the classroom'.

    Is there actually one or is this individual looking for one where it doesn't exist?


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  • #82
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    I'm a secondary school teacher.

    I prefer Miss Katgurl or (if the school allowed it) my first name. I think 'teacher' is a bit ridiculous as they are adolescents not children, they should be learning how to address adults as people.

    I don't see how women being called Sir is sending the right message. Are we telling our female students that to be equal we have to be a man?

    Also the Sir V Miss being unequal argument is flawed in this context; Sir has a different meaning in the education system as it refers to a male teacher, I don't think the students actually believe the man teaching them has been knighted.

    Calling the teachers Mr X is a far better solution. Alternatively, I would love to be Lady Katgurl but I can't see it taking off!

    At the end of the day it is a teacher's job to motivate, inspire and help prepare students for the outside world, you're not paid to stand in the classroom having your monstrous ego massaged.


  • #83
    B0jangles
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    They should just stop using "Sir" in schools and switch to Mr. X / Ms. Y, "Sir" sounds very old-fashioned and army-style authoritarian to my ears, anyway.


    BTW imagine if soldiers normally addressed male officers as "Sir" and female officers as "Miss"?


  • #84
    IK09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭IK09


    Candie wrote: »
    Talking pheasants?

    Well, la di da!

    Im so upper class I cant even spell peasants. snoot snoot


  • #85
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    How about Ms. (mizz) ?


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    IK09 wrote: »
    Im so upper class I can ever spell peasants. snoot snoot

    You can never spell them either. :)


  • #87
    IK09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭IK09


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Profesor/Profesora. They call their teacher "Profe". No sir or miss here in schools as far as I know.

    I thought it was maestro?


  • #88
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    thehouses wrote: »
    But in all seriousness these "feminist academics" should go back to the kitchen
    How very original.


  • #89
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    Candie wrote: »
    You can never spell them either. :)

    I think they meant smell not spell.


  • #90
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    How about Ms. (mizz) ?

    Sorry yes -this is what I meant to write as really marital status should be none of their business for male or female teachers.


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  • #91
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,212 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Katgurl wrote: »
    I'm a secondary school teacher.

    I prefer Miss Katgurl or (if the school allowed it) my first name. I think 'teacher' is a bit ridiculous as they are adolescents not children, they should be learning how to address adults as people.

    I don't see how women being called Sir is sending the right message. Are we telling our female students that to be equal we have to be a man?

    Also the Sir V Miss being unequal argument is flawed in this context; Sir has a different meaning in the education system as it refers to a male teacher, I don't think the students actually believe the man teaching them has been knighted.

    Calling the teachers Mr X is a far better solution. Alternatively, I would love to be Lady Katgurl but I can't see it taking off!

    At the end of the day it is a teacher's job to motivate, inspire and help prepare students for the outside world, you're not paid to stand in the classroom having your monstrous ego massaged.

    Students calling their teacher 'Teacher' reminds me of a hoity-toity college lecturer who referred to each of us, to our faces, as 'student' (as in, passing in the corridor she might say, 'don't forget the change of venue for tomorrow morning's lecture, STUDENT'). Presumably because she couldn't be bothered to remember our names. She was the only lecturer who refused to be addressed by her first name, preferring to be called 'Mizzzzzzz Hoity-Toity'. Bleurgh!


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