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Monday, August 14, 2006
Yes, sir!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lots of first-day-of-school stories in the paper today. For discussion, I picked out a comment from Laura Diamond’s survey of new teachers.
Chad Pickett, a math teacher at Mill Creek High School, says: “I’m really big on respect. It’ll be ‘Yes, sir’ or ‘No sir.’ “
Teachers, do you expect your students to say “Yes, ma’am” and “No, ma’am?” If so, are you sympathetic to students from parts of the country where this is not a custom? Parents, do you expect your students to address teachers in this manner?
