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Reply to "What's wrong with calling kids "students"?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if this has been said already but I always notice teachers call the kids “friends”. We’re in MCPS. [/quote] My DD's ECE teachers in DCPS also used this word, but it's more to replace "classmates" than "students". It's a word the kids are encouraged to use with one another, and I think it's perfect at that age when kids are trying to figure out what it means to be a friend and how to socialize with peers, and it encourages a kind of communal atmosphere. But I can't see it working in upper elementary because by then kids no the difference between a friend and acquaintance. It doesn't mean they dislike the kids they aren't friends with, but I think it would feel fake and childish at that point to call all your classmates "friends". But different than the school using/enforcing use of the word "scholars" to replace students. [/quote]
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