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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want that level of individualized attention, go private.[/quote]

Ffs, a teacher should be intelligent and capable enough to learn a child's name![/quote]

FFS, if it's that important to you, choose a simple name with a simple spelling. [/quote]

Wheee racism[/quote]

[b]No, reality.  If I move somewhere where they speak a different language, use different phonetics, etc., it will hardly be surprising that someone might mispronounce or misspell my name.  I am sorry, we have people from all over the world living here and it is not racist to misspell their name[/b].[/quote]

When I taught, most of my students were speakers of another language.  It's more complicated than you realize.  I always tried to say their names correctly, but if you haven't rolled r's before in your life, it still won't sound how it should.  Some parents liked their kids' names to sound like they did at home.  Other parents wanted their kids to know how their names would sound in English and rejected the correct pronunciation.  One child had a name with a hard "r" in English, but at home, her parents said like "ah" at the end (think Everly pronounced Evah-ly) due to their accents.  It was hard to say it her way without feeling like you were making fun of their accents.

I would hate to think I'd be accused of a microaggression when I can assure you that I wanted to do my best to make every child feel welcomed and proud of his/herself.  I did always spell their names right because I am very picky about spellings.  An entirely different topic is how I would receive forms with the child's name spelled differently and then try to track down the actual spelling.[/quote]

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