I knew a woman, who was the laziest teacher, I have ever known. She would spend her days chatting on the halls instead of teaching.
She left the school and returned first as an executive assistant and then was promoted as a vice-principal because she was in very close terms with the principal. She would spend her time in school doing her graduate work and finally became a PhD.
She would write memos to me, but I would make fun of her memos and showed them to everybody because she was a functional illiterate. She could not even do basic fractions!
I saw through her and would never call her ?doctor?. She became irate and asked the principal to talk to me about my refusal to call her by her degree.
The principal tried to show me the error of my ways.
I told the principal that there were three Hispanic PhD?s in my school but nobody called them ?doctor? and they didn?t even liked to be called by their tittles. They just wanted to be part of the crowd.
The principal told me that if I did not address her by her degree, she would take it as an insubordination. I told her then that if one must address each other by our degrees I would call her ?doctor? if she called me ?master?.
End of argument.