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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are members of an ethnic minority and I regard teachers who refuse to pronounce/learn my child's name as engaging in a form of micro-aggression.  Here's an interesting article to read:
https://www.academia.edu/192884/Kohli_R._and_Sol%C3%B3rzano_D._2012_Teachers_please_learn_our_names_Racial_Microagressions_and_the_K-12_Classroom._Race_Ethnicity_and_Education
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I get this, but at the same time, I have seen this happen with names commonly found in the US. Not only Carolyn/Caroline as above, but Laura/Lauren, John/Jon, Joanne/Joanna, and lots of other examples. My relative named Laura is constantly being called Lauren. I think some people just aren't very good at remembering names.
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That is different and closer to the OP's original example of Christian/Christopher.  In your example, they are similar but different names.  In the actual case, OP's problem is that of homophones, names that are spelled differently but said the same.

Closer examples of the similar would be Catherine/Katherine, Brian/Bryan, John/Jon, Sean/Shawn, Bobbie/Bobby, Caryn/Karen, Madeline/Madelyn.

OP--if you were staying, I might choose to make an issue of this, but since you are already planning on leaving, I would drop it.  I tend to like to leave places on better standings.  For instance, despite some minor issues, we left our last daycare in good standings without mentioning some of the minor peeves that bothered us.  And now, our preschool is having Spring Break the week after we get back from vacation and neither of us can afford an extra day to stay home with the kids, so we contacted the daycare and because we've been there before, they will take the kids for 3 days of drop-in care when we get back from vacation.  And they're happy to have us because we left on good terms.  I try to pick and choose my battles and this would be one that I would not choose, personally.[/quote]

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