Many of us can remember accidentally calling a teacher "Mom" at some point during our school years. In high school, a girl in my US history class called our teacher "Mr. Roosevelt" because she was studying so hard for the AP test. It's embarrassing from that point of view, but hilarious from the teacher's point of view. Some of the things I've been called instead of "Teacher" or my name include:
- Mama
- Daddy
- Auntie
- Granny
- Mama, I mean Teacher!
- Ms. Simmons ("you both have glasses, I can't tell you apart!" Ms. Simmons is Black. I am white.)
- the name of every white teacher in the school because "it's like you's twins"
- Auntie Bertha
- Uncle Larry
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