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being called by your first name in a school?
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Budgie Rustler | Report | 13 May 2014 23:59 |
I think you have to ask yourself would you want your own children to call you by your first name instead of Mum or Dad. |
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Florence61 | Report | 13 May 2014 22:23 |
Yes maggie, exactly. We are always being warned about being too familiar with children. ie you are not allowed to be friends with any pupils on social networking sites(council rules) and also warned not to give out personel info about yourself except now it's ok for them to be on first name terms with us! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 13 May 2014 21:54 |
Ahh Sharron, if you'd have known the teacher's first names, you would have missed out on the fun of trying to find out what they were!! |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 13 May 2014 21:50 |
about ten years ago a new head teacher in a school near me change the rule and all teachers was to be called by there first names. |
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Florence61 | Report | 13 May 2014 21:32 |
Thankyou everyone for your interesting replies. |
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Sharron | Report | 13 May 2014 20:30 |
I have always disliked the idea that teachers should not be called by their first names. |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 13 May 2014 20:25 |
It's interesting to hear the other side of the discussion. |
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Von | Report | 13 May 2014 20:04 |
I don't think children lose any respect because they use a first name. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 13 May 2014 19:56 |
I help as a volunteer in our local primary school and am always known as Mrs.(Surname), but another volunteer, a little older than me, is known by her first name. That is her choice. |
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ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom | Report | 13 May 2014 19:53 |
In our primary the staff from teachers to MDAs are all called Mr/Mrs/Miss (surname) . |
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Guinevere | Report | 13 May 2014 19:51 |
I taught for many years and never had a problem with the children calling me by my first name. I still do some work with teenagers and they all call me by my first name. |
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Florence61 | Report | 13 May 2014 19:43 |
Thanks von. Well apparently if the parents want us to be called by first names and also refer to other teachers infront of said child, even the head teacher by their first name, it appears we dont have any right to challenge them. |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 13 May 2014 19:37 |
I work as an SNTA in a junior school, none of the staff or helpers are called by their first names in school. |
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Von | Report | 13 May 2014 19:17 |
Not sure where you can find information Florence. |
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Florence61 | Report | 13 May 2014 18:43 |
To those on here that work with ASN pupils in school, have you ever been told "you will be referred to by your christian name and not mrs, miss or mr"? |
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