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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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.[/quote]

Wheee still racism. There are people who grew up part of non-white cultures right here in the US, speaking English, who have different naming traditions. This is a thing that regularly happens to Black kids.[/quote]

+2 OP’s kid could be Polish, Russian, Albanian, or even a white Hispanic person for all we know. It might not be racism, but it could very much be xenophobia. And that’s a microaggression. I’m Polish-American myself and the giggling over my “ethnic” maiden name all throughout my K-12 school experience still sticks with me. I didn’t have a name for it back then but I do now - and it’s a microaggression, clear as day.  [/quote]

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