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Sorry, if my kid’s first grade rebbe wants to be called Dr., I’m not doing it.

Your call for yourself. As for me, if it makes someone (especially a fellow Yid) happy and doesn’t hurt anyone, why wouldn’t I?

P.S. If the Rebbe was a Doctor of History, or Talmudic law, would your answer change?