How do you address your former teachers and coaches?

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thavoice

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Oct 11, 2013 10:53 AM
..and no, husband or wife isnt what I am looking for here ya pervs.


What type of respect do you show the teachers and coaches you have? I see alot of young people calling teachers/coaches by their first names after they graduate and was wondering what you all do?


I know I still address them as Mr or Mrs and Coach....
Oct 11, 2013 10:53am
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vdubb96

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Oct 11, 2013 10:56 AM
Teachers by their name. Coaches every last one of them I've ever had, still call them coach.
Oct 11, 2013 10:56am
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ernest_t_bass

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Oct 11, 2013 10:58 AM
Depends. Usually still Mr./Mrs. All coaches... coach.
Oct 11, 2013 10:58am
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Iliketurtles

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Oct 11, 2013 11:00 AM
I never talk to any teachers. But I still call my high school cross country coach "coach glamm"

This reminds me of a funny story when I was a senior and going into a football game and my coach was a couple people in front of me and shouted his first name... next Monday at practice he got us all around and said that we are to address him as Coach, Coach Glamm or Mr. Glamm until we graduate. Then I had to do a few extra laps from our workout that day.
Oct 11, 2013 11:00am
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gerb131

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Oct 11, 2013 11:00 AM
I don't care to acknowledge them at all.
Oct 11, 2013 11:00am
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Oct 11, 2013 11:16 AM
ernest_t_bass;1516370 wrote:Depends. Usually still Mr./Mrs. All coaches... coach.
This.

Coaches will always be coach to me.
Oct 11, 2013 11:16am
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TedSheckler

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Oct 11, 2013 11:16 AM
Teachers- Mr. or Mrs.
Coaches- Coach

In the case of ccrunner, they call him kid-toucher.
Oct 11, 2013 11:16am
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MontyBrunswick

Oct 11, 2013 11:20 AM
I call mine ccrunner609
Oct 11, 2013 11:20am
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Oct 11, 2013 11:21 AM
I would call a teacher Mr/Mrs. My wrestling coach was my cousin, so I call him Craig.
Oct 11, 2013 11:21am
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Gblock

Oct 11, 2013 11:26 AM
not only do i still call my old teachers mr. or mrs, but as a teacher now, when i see other teachers outside of work i still address them as mr. or mrs. because it becomes so engrained at work
Oct 11, 2013 11:26am
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ernest_t_bass

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Oct 11, 2013 11:32 AM
justincredible;1516391 wrote:I would call a teacher Mr/Mrs. My wrestling coach was my cousin, so I call him Craig.

Where's your flute, Craig?
Oct 11, 2013 11:32am
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Oct 11, 2013 11:38 AM
He was also my teacher for a few classes. So I guess I call old teachers Craig, too.
Oct 11, 2013 11:38am
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Laley23

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Oct 11, 2013 11:41 AM
Called all but 1 of my teachers by their first name in school and all my coaches by their first name. So, I still do that lol.
Oct 11, 2013 11:41am
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Tiernan

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Oct 11, 2013 11:42 AM
They're mostly all dead.
Oct 11, 2013 11:42am
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Heretic

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Oct 11, 2013 11:47 AM
I haven't spoken to any former teacher or coach of mine in over a decade. I think I did call him "coach" when I did, though.
Oct 11, 2013 11:47am
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vdubb96

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Oct 11, 2013 12:07 PM
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vdubb96

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Oct 11, 2013 12:14 PM
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GOONx19

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Oct 11, 2013 12:18 PM
All of my basketball coaches are "Coach", my baseball coach is "Trev" (a shortened version of his last name), and my track/cc coach is Mr. Rupe.
Oct 11, 2013 12:18pm
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Oct 11, 2013 1:11 PM
Depends on the teacher or coach. I call some Mr./Mrs., some by their first name or a nickname and some coach. Same with parents of my friends or older family friends.
Oct 11, 2013 1:11pm
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Belly35

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Oct 11, 2013 1:24 PM
Many of my coaches who are still alive I call them Coach
Those teachers that I had it's Mr /Mrs ........ some we have become friends with an we use first name now.
Oct 11, 2013 1:24pm
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Oct 11, 2013 1:38 PM
Gblock;1516400 wrote:not only do i still call my old teachers mr. or mrs, but as a teacher now, when i see other teachers outside of work i still address them as mr. or mrs. because it becomes so engrained at work
Yup. Same here. Heck, I even call my brother coach.
Oct 11, 2013 1:38pm
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hasbeen

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Oct 11, 2013 2:02 PM
Nearly all of them are Mr/Mrs or coach. There's only a handful that get a first name and that's because they make me. I still call them coach sometimes.
Oct 11, 2013 2:02pm
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fan_from_texas

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Oct 11, 2013 2:14 PM
Teachers are first name. Coaches I liked still get Coach.
Oct 11, 2013 2:14pm
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Scarlet_Buckeye

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Oct 11, 2013 3:34 PM
Teachers = Mr or Mrs/Ms
Coach = Coach
Oct 11, 2013 3:34pm
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said_aouita

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Oct 11, 2013 4:02 PM
When in HS I addressed my coach with "Mr" and his last name. Nowadays when I see him I'll call him coach just to be nice.
My real coach was not present at my HS teams practices.
Oct 11, 2013 4:02pm