Miss and Sir

[Pippidoeswhatshewants]

Dc is about to start secondary, and brought home a little leaflet about secondary school practicalities etc.
Apparently he is to address male teachers as Mr X or Sir and female teachers as Miss X or Mrs X or Miss.

This might be because I am a foreigner and not familiar with how secondary school works, but something about calling female teachers "Miss" just rubs me up the wrong way, maybe because the Fräulein has been history for a long time and I have always been Frau Pippi, even as a teenager.

What do you think about this as teachers? Non-issue?

At DD's secondary school the students have to say either Miss or Sir. The staff also have to call each other Miss or Sir in front of the students.

Pupils always seem to pick Miss or Mrs at random. I'm commonly known as Miss Airside even though they all know I am married while two of my unmarried colleagues get Mrs.
I'll answer to "teacher" but I don't like it - "yes, pupil?"

the STAFF have to call each other that?
how odd

I just say ' oi Peter' as I am an adult

I agree Brenda I used to have to visit the school regularly as a governor and was astonished to hear this so I asked.

The headteacher is a lot bit up her backside and has some odd ideas and this is one of them.

its a bit ' ooh master '

We call each other 'sir' or 'miss' (I usually only do that if I don't remember their name!) or 'Mr/Ms X' in front of the students, but it's not a rule it just seems to happen naturally. There wouldn't be a great tittering or raising of eyebrows if we used first names, though. I don't think the kids would even really notice. They know we have first names!

One teacher had real trouble pronouncing my sirname (which is not that hard, frankly) and called me "Miss... um... Firstname" so often that some of the kids would slip and call me Miss Firstname too! I don't really care so long as they're not being rude.

Many of the older staff in our school hate the Miss address that kids often make, and follow it with Mrs Surname to correct.
I'm not offended either way but I do find our pupils address us all by our title and surname but as a married woman it still alternates between Mrs Jersey & Miss Jersey

There's bigger fish to fry