Teachers: Your e-mail signature

[Anonymous]

I don't teach kids, I teach med students, but I have my name and title in my email sig, and that is it. I have been meaning to add pronouns, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Chad Johnson
DEI Leader and Head CRT indoctrinator
He/Him
Loudoun County Public Schools
"The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this Earth" -- Malcom X.

*chef's kiss*

[Anonymous]

Larla Smith (she/her, white)
8th Grade Language Arts Teacher | XYZ Middle School
Classroom phone: [phone]
Google Voice (call or text): 555-555-5552

Image of Progress Pride Flag

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

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[Anonymous]

I refuse to list pronouns. I’m not normalizing that. Fight me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I refuse to list pronouns. I’m not normalizing that. Fight me.

Oh, sweetie. You took the bait. Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Pronouns yes, but not all of the other stuff.

[Anonymous]

Why use pronouns if you (presumably) use Mr. or Mrs.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers, do you have these in your e-mail signature and why or why not?

Pronouns, degree(s), land acknowledgment, inspirational quote, etc

Land acknowledgment? Wtf? What on earth does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Name
Grade X Teacher, X Coach

A land acknowledgement recognizes that the school is on indigenous land. Our school lists the Treaty No. and Band.

[Anonymous]

Not surprising that some of the most incompetent teachers have overly long signatures with irrelevant information.

Name, workplace(s), contact info, and relevant degree is all you need, maybe pronouns if your environment is woke or your name is weird and nobody can figure out your gender. Land acknowledgment is useless unless you are time traveling to fight alongside the Indians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers, do you have these in your e-mail signature and why or why not?

Pronouns, degree(s), land acknowledgment, inspirational quote, etc

Land acknowledgment? Wtf? What on earth does that mean?

This has been huge in Canada and Australia for the past few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why use pronouns if you (presumably) use Mr. or Mrs.?

I don't use Mr. or Mrs. My pronouns are she/her/hers and the titles Mrs/Miss are leftover from a patriarchal society in which women did not have their own name. I am most certainly not Mrs. DHFirstName DHLastName (a vestige of the days when women had no credit themselves and signed their DH's name, the name on the account, but with Mrs in front -- hard to believe, but when I was born in 1970, no women had credit cards), nor am I Miss FirstName DadLastName. I'm Ms FirstName LastName if forced into a title, but I prefer to avoid it all around. I prefer FirstName LastName -- no one needs info about my gender or marital status in my signature.

Even with my annoyance with the misogynistic origins of Mrs/Miss aside, "Mr. or Mrs." titles reinforce a binary that 1) doesn't exist, and 2) harms some of my nonbinary colleagues. So -- I support everyone normalizing the use of pronouns.

[Anonymous]

I have my name, title, degree, and contact info.

I don't have pronouns in my signature because I'm non-binary and not out. I appreciate when people do.

I find quotes in email signatures make emails less accessible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why use pronouns if you (presumably) use Mr. or Mrs.?

I don't use Mr. or Mrs. My pronouns are she/her/hers and the titles Mrs/Miss are leftover from a patriarchal society in which women did not have their own name. I am most certainly not Mrs. DHFirstName DHLastName (a vestige of the days when women had no credit themselves and signed their DH's name, the name on the account, but with Mrs in front -- hard to believe, but when I was born in 1970, no women had credit cards), nor am I Miss FirstName DadLastName. I'm Ms FirstName LastName if forced into a title, but I prefer to avoid it all around. I prefer FirstName LastName -- no one needs info about my gender or marital status in my signature.

Even with my annoyance with the misogynistic origins of Mrs/Miss aside, "Mr. or Mrs." titles reinforce a binary that 1) doesn't exist, and 2) harms some of my nonbinary colleagues. So -- I support everyone normalizing the use of pronouns.

I'm sorry life is so difficult for you.

But not sorry I don't use pronouns.

[Anonymous]

Name, title, confidentiality notice, and directions on how to translate this email, because everybody forgets to incorporate those who don’t speak English. Tempted to add land, formally occupied by indigenous tribe, as well as land formerly farmed on by slaves to my signature.