Teacher made to apologise - “good afternoon girls”

[MrsMurphyIWish]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11976891/Female-teacher-forced-apologise-saying-Good-afternoon-girls.html

I’m a teacher and I have to apologise to a student for inadvertently calling a student by birth name and not chosen name. (Was early in school year and was calling the register in auto pilot). Had email from pastoral about how upset I had made them feel. I fell on tenterhooks round this student - especially at parent’s evening and reports as their parents are unaware so I have to use birth names. This is the worst that’s happened to me - I really feel for this teacher.

The way Nazi and fascists is slung around suggests these are the worst things the people slinging them can think off to try and denigrate GC views. It says nothing about where those views sit on the political spectrum.

That's also true.

As a GC woman I'm very happy to respect the pronouns/name changes of choice - but as a woman with ADHD, if I was still a teacher I'd be amazed if I got through the school year getting right 100% of the time!

I find it incredible that you have to formally apologise when the child doesn't have the balls to tell her parents and they (and all their family/friends/most people outside of school presumably)call them her/she and by her birth name!
I also find it bonkers and very scary a school is happy to collude in keeping this secret from the girls parents. (Assuming there's no signs of abuse etc and the child is under 16/18)
Interesting' times we live in....

I haven't finished rtft yet, but wondered what would happen if teachers just started calling students by their last names to make it easier for the teachers to avoid all this bs. The amount of times my DCs friends changed their names, it was so hard to keep up. I can't imagine dealing with classes full of kids. And maybe just 'your child' at parent night?

I told my teacher age 9 (1980s) that I wanted to change my name to Verity. She rolled her eyes and told me to move on. I forgot all about it. Imagine today if she had said - oh there there dear that’s fine. And that’s without the sex hormones and sterility. It’s all nonsense.

Correct. And they should not be giving the whip hand to children over adults..Every teacher in that school now knows they can inform on their.teacher and cause all kinds of trouble for them - and they will have management on their side to achieve this..
And all this is done to support a condition that doesn't exist.

That’s an interesting proposition! I had a teacher who called all the boys by their surnames, but all the girls by their first names. I found it incredibly sexist and wished he’d call the girls by their surnames too! He was also a homophobe.

‘What’s your name?’
‘It’s Simon, sir.’
‘No, not your first name, what’s your surname? Only big girlie p—fs use their first name!’

Different times indeed!