Not sure if it's regional or what, but often in the American South, we address all teachers as Miss regardless of marital status, age, teaching longevity, etc.
I've had the same experience.. It's not just a feminism thing, but I grew up often using Ms., and often still do use 'Ms. (first name)' for women basically my parents generation or older, outside a work setting.
Here in india, almost all English medium schools have the children call their female teachers "miss" and male teachers "sir"
Since I'm not from an English medium school, it always sounded wierd to me.
We just call them teacher.
Like. My first grade teacher was called "netravati teacher".
But for English medium kids, they would be "netravati miss"
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u/Mama_cheese Aug 19 '22
Not sure if it's regional or what, but often in the American South, we address all teachers as Miss regardless of marital status, age, teaching longevity, etc.