Just when you thought you've seen it all.....

I teach w/ the Florida Virtual School, working with high school students throughout Florida. This is an email that I received from one of my students just a few minutes ago, word-for-word!
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yo kim g im on an assignment that i need a password for and a user name can you please give me one so i can move along.
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Now, if it's not unbelievable enough that a student is calling me "kim g", he has the audacity to start it with "yo". Good lord - is there any hope for him?! Notice the email wasn't signed, so w/o doing some searching, I don't know quite who is asking for this information.

I replied to him with the following:

Hello.
I'd be happy to give you a user name & password, provided you can do three things for me:
1.) Be more respectful & not refer to me as "kim g". My name is Kimberly G****** and you are welcome to call me that, Mrs. G******, Ms. G******, etc.
2.) When you address an email to any teacher (or adult), please do not start it with the word "yo". People make judgements based on how you write & that is not an acceptable greeting.
3.) When you write an email, please be sure to sign it with your name (first & last) - especially if you're not 100% sure that the person who's receiving the mail will recognize your email address. Unfortunately with over 100 students, I cannot remember everyone's email address.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Makes you wonder......
Perhaps I would get through to him better if I started out all of my emails with "Yo yo yo, 'sup my peeps?"

 

Yeah, teachers do not like bad punctuation, grammar, and what not in their emails.

 

Typical Teenager

 

Thats funny. But maybe he just wants you to feel like a part of their group, or "pack", like a friend or wants you to feel confortable or sees you as a young cool hot teacher or maybe he is just retarded.

yo-yo-yo homie

 

Didn't you just turn 16?

 

I usually call my profs by their first name, guess it's different in high school though.. I thought it was gonna be some guy hitting on you though , that's not TOO bad.

 

damn, Kim G, that sucks. I'm kidding, i'm kidding.

 

Evo, I actually sign all my emails to my students with my first & last name (never Mrs. blah-blah-blah). I really don't mind if they call me by my first name, but starting off an email with "yo kim g" is just too much.

He'd never have the balls to call one of this "traditional" school teachers that, so why shouldn't the same rules apply in the virtual classroom?

 

My wife teaches college. E-mail is an official form of communication on campus. She gets some emails that makes your kid look like the second coming of Albert Einstein. Her students have to have to be sophomores before they can take her class!!

Now granted she teaches accounting and that accounting has some pretty tough lingo, but even when you take away the bad grammar... well let's just say there is zero communication possible.

I chalk up that e-mail to a student testing his boundries with the teacher. I am glad you corrected him. My wife simply responds, "I received your e-mail however it was not comprehendable. Please look over it and resend in a format that represents a second year college student."

or something to that affect

 

I regularly say yo and address my teachers by there first name...

ive always viewed teachers more as peers.

the few that have a problem with it I refer to with their last name.