As many others have mentioned, I was utterly unaware of the personal lives of most of my teachers. The difference between Miss and Mrs signaled nothing more than whether a female teacher was married; our teachers simply did not mention their spouses. There was a level of professionalism that kept talk of anything personal out of the work…
As many others have mentioned, I was utterly unaware of the personal lives of most of my teachers. The difference between Miss and Mrs signaled nothing more than whether a female teacher was married; our teachers simply did not mention their spouses. There was a level of professionalism that kept talk of anything personal out of the workplace. Our fifth grade teacher was absent for extended periods of time due to illness, but we students were never told what that illness was (I suspected cancer, but we were simply NOT told).
I suspect that a lot of the pushback against this law is related to the fact that professionalism is no longer practiced in the field of education. It's not at all uncommon for teachers to insist that their students address them by their given name instead of their surname. Nor is it uncommon for teachers to dress extremely casually in the classroom. It follows that teachers would, indeed, talk about their personal lives with their students.
As many others have mentioned, I was utterly unaware of the personal lives of most of my teachers. The difference between Miss and Mrs signaled nothing more than whether a female teacher was married; our teachers simply did not mention their spouses. There was a level of professionalism that kept talk of anything personal out of the workplace. Our fifth grade teacher was absent for extended periods of time due to illness, but we students were never told what that illness was (I suspected cancer, but we were simply NOT told).
I suspect that a lot of the pushback against this law is related to the fact that professionalism is no longer practiced in the field of education. It's not at all uncommon for teachers to insist that their students address them by their given name instead of their surname. Nor is it uncommon for teachers to dress extremely casually in the classroom. It follows that teachers would, indeed, talk about their personal lives with their students.