Teacher Signs emails with They / She what does this mean how should we and our child and we address her

[Anonymous]

This is easy. They would like to be addressed as they/she. As far as title, they will inform or simply ask “how would you like to be addressed?”

[Anonymous]

This is ridiculous. Also, it’s February why is this just coming up now?

[Anonymous]

But can someone understand why someone would list their pronouns as a combination of he or she and they or them? I understand one or the other, but not both. I don't think it's fair to ask other people to remember that you have multiple pronouns. I don't care if someone born male wants to use she/her or someone born female wants to use he/him, or if anyone wants to use they/them. But when you start mixing such as he/they or she/they it's confusing. Does it mean you truly don't care which of those two pronouns someone uses? Or that you prefer one of those sometimes and the other one sometimes? Just pick one and don't make us all guess.

[Anonymous]

It just means they’re comfortable with either.

Facts about they and the great scandal of you replacing thee, thou, thy.

https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-they?tl=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you give an example of a sentence where you address someone in person using the third person pronoun?

"Ms. Smith, this is my mom. Mom, this is Ms. Smith. She's my history teacher."

That’s not addressing your teacher- you are speaking to your mom at that point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you give an example of a sentence where you address someone in person using the third person pronoun?

"Ms. Smith, this is my mom. Mom, this is Ms. Smith. She's my history teacher."

That’s not addressing your teacher- you are speaking to your mom at that point.

Hit send too soon.

So I still don’t see how the third person pronoun matters in addressing the teacher, which is the question asked in the subject.

[Anonymous]

Trump doesn’t recognize this person

[Anonymous]

What has your child been calling the teacher since school started in September?

[Anonymous]

I would ask. "How would you prefer that I refer to you?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you give an example of a sentence where you address someone in person using the third person pronoun?

"Ms. Smith, this is my mom. Mom, this is Ms. Smith. She's my history teacher."

That’s not addressing your teacher- you are speaking to your mom at that point.

Hit send too soon.

So I still don’t see how the third person pronoun matters in addressing the teacher, which is the question asked in the subject.

I'm sure the person can still file a complaint if you refer to them in the third person, in front of them, if you use a non-preferred pronoun. The point is that you don't only use the third person form when the person isn't around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of this. I am a teacher and I have a student that wants everyone to call her lamb. We have to call her lamb. Attendance? We say lamb. Phone call home? We call lambs parents. Yes, they encourage us. They will correct us. It is ridiculous, sorry.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Is this coddling for a 5 year old or for a teenager?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump doesn’t recognize this person

I don't recognize this level of stupidity either.

[Anonymous]

Mrs. Smith if she's married
Miss Smith if she's unmarried

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mrs. Smith if she's married
Miss Smith if she's unmarried

Yikes, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed a lot of posters here use “they” instead of she or he. It’s kind of annoying. Just use her or him.

That's a totally different usage and irrelevant here.