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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers especially need to get it together when it comes to names. I teach high school, and recently wrote down a kids name in front of her - common enough name, unique spelling. Her face absolutely lit up "you spelled it right!! Teachers NEVER spell it right!" It's not that hard to learn a name and spell it correctly. I also always ask if I'm pronouncing it right, and write it down phonetically until I remember it correctly. Basic human respect.[/quote]
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Our kids attend a very diverse HS and each year, at graduation, I am awed by one teacher who flies, properly and respectfully through them. Turns out, when they come to pick up their grad ceremony tickets, he asks for it sloooowly, makes phonetic notes for himself, and even records the ones he struggles with if he's not already had them for the core subject he teaches. To see kids who've had their names butchered for years....have it spoken like it should be for their moment of glory is :)[/quote]

DP. Love hearing this. Our DD just graduated from college, and we all decided that the MVP of the day was the Dean, whose job it was to say the name of every one of the graduates as they crossed the stage to get their diplomas. There are a lot of diverse names. DD told us later that the Dean not only asks students to send him their pronunciations, he also asks them to send in audio or video recordings via email so he gets names correct.

Side note, but I was so tickled that our DD, who like me, has four names (first, two middle, last) specifically asked them to use her WHOLE name. They had her listed as [i]Firstname OneMiddleName Lastname[/i], which commonly occurs on forms etc and doesn't bother any of us at all, but it touched me that she spotted that in advance and wanted her full name said as she crossed the stage. Grad mom tears popped into my eyes....maybe that was just the sun, but I don't think so....[/quote]

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