Thursday, 15 May 2014

Calling teachers Sir and Miss ‘depressing and sexist’

Calling teachers “Sir” or “Miss” is depressing, sexist and gives women in schools a lower status than their male counterparts, an academic has said.

Prof Jennifer Coates told the Times Educational Supplement “Sir is a knight... but Miss is ridiculous - it doesn’t match Sir at all”.

She said she had been struck by the disparity while volunteering in a secondary school.

When idiots like Prof Coates come out with nonsense like this why are they given the time of day? Why can’t they just be ignored?  

Despite calling teachers Sir and Miss being a practice that has been widely used and accepted for many years now all of a sudden Prof Coates has an issue with it.


It’s sad and pathetic. 

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