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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the teacher pronouncing it correctly? If so, I think you really need to teach your child to look the other way.

My name is Sarah- it gets misspelled at least 50% of the time. It used to frustrate me, but my parents taught me not to worry about it and explained that some people just don't think about it or find it important. My son's name is Zac. Like my name, it is constantly misspelled. Sometimes we laugh that teachers will spell it differently within the same note or email.

My point is that regardless of what your name is, people will misspell it and it is not a sign that they do not care. I would work with your child on learning to laugh at it, rather than feeling sad. It is going to be happening their whole life, so it is better to start dealing with it now. Trust me, the person at Starbucks is not going to worry about spelling the name correctly on the side of the cup![/quote]

Also a Sarah. People sometimes leave off the h or they stick it after the s... kids, staff, and parents often misspell and mispronounce my name. Sometimes they make me married by using “Mrs.”... I just get over it. My last name isn’t exactly exotic but it’s not common. I’m not going to be upset when people say and spell it wrong. Parents do that ALL the time though and it honestly gets a bit irritating when they use Mrs. because I use Ms. and that should be the go to unless they know a woman prefers Mrs. or Miss. but oh well![/quote]

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