It’s less weird when you take into account that NC is rated one of the worst states to be a teacher in, and in turn one of the worst states for education as a whole; when you aren’t paying your teachers enough they tend to not care about what they are doing and it shows. NC really needs to get their act together and…

since it’s smack at the beginning of the school year, and the kid has been in her class maybe all of a week, she needs to slow her fucking roll. ma’am is a reflex for polite southern kids.

National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood.

Now can you name what the acronym means....

I don’t much care for “ma’am” myself, and “miss” even less at my age, from adults. But I just ... ask them to call me by my name?

I’m getting a Married with Children flashback.

I admit I’m not a fan (as An Old it reinforces my age in my head which is MY damn problem and no one else’s), I totally recognize the word is an honorific, meant to convey respect. This lady needs to get over it, post haste.

Agreed. I’m almost 45 & appreciate the respect and deference accorded when when of my adult kiddos’ friends call me ma’am. I tell them thank you, that’s so respectful of you, but you can use my first name. It’s mt choice. Some still call me ma’am; I’m not about to correct them or disrespect THEM by insisting they use…

I moved from California to Florida (yeah, I know) and it was jarring for kids to call me sir or Mr. Carl. My first reaction was to tell them “just call me Carl” but after some thought, I realized that I was undermining their parents’ teaching. So I roll with it. How anyone can see a child calling an adult “ma’am” as…

Yep, I know this area somewhat as my family roots are in Rocky Mount. Maybe things have changed a lot lately, but the idea of a teacher in those parts getting upset at being called “ma’am” doesn’t compute with me. That’s one of the part of the country where kids saying “sir” and “ma’am” is like oxygen in the air, you…

This is more than likely white women not wanting to be seen as “old” and taking it out on a kid.

This is...weird. Especially for the fact that it happened in the south. They usually are big on ma’am. When I was in elementary school in Texas as a kid, we had to say it when addressing a teacher and if we didnt we’d get in trouble.

Tamarion was instructed to have his parents sign the sheet of paper that he wrote “ma’am” on and return it to his teacher the next day.

Is “Ma’am” on the list of things I can’t say anymore? When did that happen? Because it sounds like you’re telling me that every time I thought I was being polite by calling a woman “Ma’am,” I was actually being an [insert appropriate pejorative term here].

Apparently, the teacher had previously told her students that she did not like the use of the word ma’am.

Soak & fart...

Just when I thought I’d heard all fart-related terminology.  That almost killed me.

Yea, he definitely buttered the toast on a couple of those.

I went to Catholic school. At least once a week we had go pray silently in the chapel. And every week it was basically a competition to see who could unseal the funniest fart, because there is literally nothing in the world funnier than a fart in a silent, solemn environment.