38 Funny Things Teachers Call Their Students

What do you call your students? In an effort to be more inclusive than “boys and girls” or “ladies and gentlemen,” many teachers have moved onto terms like “scholars,” “mathematicians,” and “first graders.” We’ve gathered more expert advice on this topic here. But we couldn’t resist sharing some of the sweet, funny terms of endearment from Reddit teachers in this recent thread. Would you use any of them?

(You know your students and school best, of course, and some of these might work in a kindergarten classroom but come across the wrong way in a room full of high schoolers, or vice versa. Use the fine judgment we know you have as a shaper of young minds. 😉)