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[quote=Anonymous]Different rules for different situations and different people.

In your family, speaking to adults that way is unacceptable.

It doesn't matter where or from whom he is learning the behavior; neither of you is in charge of what the rules are for anyone but him and he is the only one responsible for controlling his behavior.

Leave the teacher out of the discussion and focus entirely on what you expect from DS. Anything else gives him a chance to try to blame someone else for how he is acting which is not a good precedent to set.

If your DS brings up that his teacher talks this way, just point out that while X, Y, and Z are awesome qualities about his teacher that he should try to emulate, this particular manner of speaking is still not acceptable in your family. Different people do things differently, and even though you disagree with the teacher about this specific thing he is still a great teacher but your son must speak more respectfully than he does. Also, the teacher is an adult and the rules of interaction between two peers are very different from the rules of interaction between an adult and a child.[/quote]

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