No matter how long I live, what I accomplish, or how much I earn, I will always feel compelled to use the prefix “Mister” (Etc.) for all my high school and elementary teachers. (Yes, they were nearly all male.) I think dumber ideas have been hatched than that of encouraging all of us to continue to use these terms to symbolize our respect for those who have taught us and thus – by default – for education in general. There is a reason the Taliban bombs schools. They want to live in the dark ages. We don’t.
BILL
PS: Mr. Rigoni was my sixth grade teacher. Still rockin.’
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