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‘Gender-Free Model’: Students Should Stop Calling Teachers ‘Mr and Mrs’, UK Educators Told

by Kurt Zindulka


British teachers were reportedly told that students should not refer to them as “Mr and Mrs” in a training session organised by the National Education Union.

In order to foster a “gender-free” education model, the chief executive of the Educate & Celebrate charity, Dr Elly Barnes told educators in a lecture entitled ‘Getting the Language Right for 2022’ that pupils should use gender-neutral terms such as “teacher” when in the classroom, instead of the traditional ‘Mr’ and ‘Mrs’ honorifics.

The 90-minute webinar from Dr Barnes, a copy of which was obtained by The Telegraph, went on to advocate for classrooms to abandon other gender-specific terms such as “boys”, “girls”, “son”, and “mother”, in favour of alternatives such as “students”, “pupils”, “child”, and “parent”…


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