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She did her best ok?
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We referring to teachers as "it" now?
Damn. Underpaid and dehumanized all at once. That's gotta be rough.
As a non-native speaker, referring to a single teacher as "they" is not very intuitive (although correct)...
I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I'm still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using "you are" for a single person.
Funny, English is also my second language but in my first language 'she' and plural 'they' are the same word, only distinguished by the verb, so it never seemed that weird to me.
Interesting. What's your first language?
Dutch. It's ze/zij for both singular female and plural they.