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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You expect parents to call you Ms. Lastname? We are all adults. Parents and teachers should be on a first-name basis u less kids are present. So, in an email it should be addressing by first name.[/quote]

This is all the way wrong. And rude. Parents and teachers should not be on a first name basis. Unless they are friends out side of the school environment. [/quote]

That's what you think. And yet other people have a different views. Teachers who sign their name Ms. Lastname and make clear that they want to be called like that seem to lack confidence in their teaching ability and/or are younger. They are welcome to do it, but it will come with judgment from parents.[/quote]

Speak for yourself. Calling another adult by their first name without invitation is rude in most of the US. I wrote emails to six teachers today and didn’t call a single one by the first name. The youngest is 30s and in her seventh year at DD’s school. [/quote]

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I have never been addressed as anything but Mrs. Lastname by teachers. I return the same courtesy to  them.  Yes, once there is a friendship or a request (call me Jennifer!) only then we become informal.  I think it is bad manners to call people by first name unless asked to do so.

Finally, I am with OP.  Students should refer to their teachers with the proper salutation, prefix and lastname.  These students will be entering a workforce where they will be working with people with lastnames from different cultures and countries.  It is a sign of laziness and mental dullness if they cannot put in the effort to learn the lastnames of their teachers.  [/quote]

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