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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son's elementary school teacher has an EdD and insists that the students and parents call her "Doctor".  Annoying for the parents (at least for me) and confusing for the kids. 
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Your kid can't learn to call someone Dr. X?  I don't understand how it's any different from learning Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss.  You call people what they want to be called.  It's basic politeness.

And no, I don't have a doctorate of any kind.  I go by Ms. or Mrs. because that is the appropriate title for me.  I just don't understand why anyone cares if someone wants to be called by a title they have earned.[/quote]

So, depending on what field you're in, it's considered gauche to insist that people call you "Dr." when you have a Ph.D.  At my workplace, probably a third of the people have Ph.D.s and nobody knows or cares, because people only care about the work you do, not your degrees.

This is obviously different in different settings. I think OP's observation is that Ed.D.s tend to ask to be called Dr. more often than in some other fields. [/quote]

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