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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love it.

My daughter's name is Mary-Kate. There is one other girl at her school named Mary Cate (no hyphen). I believe she is Mary (first) Catherine (middle).

We decided to go with the hyphenated double name instead of doing first and middle because I did not want teachers to call her Mary. [b]I go by my middle name but had a strict teacher refuse to call me anything other than my legal first name when I was in school. [/b][b](She was the type that would refuse to call a Christopher "Chris".)[/b] If my daughter decides to go by Mary, Kate, or MK in the future, then that will be her choice.[/quote]
I had a colleague like this when I was a schoolteacher. It changed my perspective entirely when it came to naming my own children. [b]I named them what I wanted them to be called.[/b][/quote]
This could be a wise practice going forward given the fact that schools in Florida, Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, North Carolina, Alabama, Montana, and North Dakota (I could be missing some states) have already started requiring parents to fill out a permission form in order for kids to be called by their nickname/a shortened version of their name (a side effect of the trans issue). I suspect this policy will spread to other states.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193393695/parents-in-florida-must-ok-a-teacher-calling-their-child-by-a-nickname
https://www.cfpublic.org/education/2023-08-09/florida-schools-roll-out-consent-forms-student-nicknames
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2023/08/10/pronouns-law-parents-annoyed-schools-must-report-nicknames-indianapolis-marion-hamilton-county/70562122007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/04/11/fallout-teachers-using-students-preferred-names-pronouns/83016730007/

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