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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We gave our kids ethnic names and my daughter's biology teacher mispronounced her name for an entire year.  We are Middle Eastern and I"m pretty sure this was because she was racist.  We also discussed it with principal, etc.  and it never helped.  Eventually other kids started calling her this tortured mispronunciation that the teacher came up with as well, so it also felt like bullying.  [/quote]

1. It could be that the teacher simply had a difficult time pronouncing the child's name. You've stated it's a foreign name so why the surprise? Many foreign students, the Chinese for example, will adopt an American name to facilitate things instead of expecting American teachers to be able to pronounce their given names properly.

2. I wouldn't read too much into the name thing at all. (to all parents who had this issue) I once had a situation where I called a kid named...let's say Pim...by the name of Tim. It was done accidentally. I mean, I had nearly 150 kids for one. Secondly, the mother tried to make a huge deal of this but come on Pim is not a common name at all, TIM is! During a meeting she tried to make it into a big deal, claiming that her teenaged child was so hurt by it and absolutely distraught because his classmates would laugh and call him Tim.  :roll: No one bought the nonsense. No matter how much of a deal she tried to make it into to, it came down to a teacher calling the child by the wrong name which everyone (except Mom) could agree was an accident.[/quote]

Most people, especially educated people, like teachers can understand the basics of pronunciation once explained. Considering that PP said it was a "torured mispronunciation" it does seem more deliberate. I have a very easy to pronounce name but it is foreign. It's essentially the same pronunciation at Toni, spelled the same way. Four letters, only a different first letter that Toni. I had a few teachers in the 1970s who would blanch at trying to pronounce it and called me all sorts of strange, longer more complicated names instead. It happens.[/quote]

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