Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:

> When i began teaching 5th grade
That's the ten- and eleven-year-olds, right?

> However, at the end
> of the year some of them told me that they probably would have behaved
> better in class and respected me more if i had said to call me "Mr.
> Belsky" (wow that looks weird :-P ).
Until last year ago, at my kids' school, the only male teacher was
called by his last name ("meneer Willemstein") and all the female
teachers were called "Miss <Firstname>". Then someone noticed that
this was kind of strange, and he's now "meneer Leendert".

> Of course, this will all become oh-so-more-complicated when (iy"H) i
> eventually get through rabbinical school after i finish college. :-) .
Won't you have a title then to call you by, like "rabbi"?

   Irina

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