Teacher continually getting DD’s name wrong

And I don't accept the excuse that teachers have hundreds of names to learn. I used to be a teacher and it's really not difficult.

Oh ffs. If you were a teacher, surely you'd know that some people find some things much more difficult than others?? There are some things I don't find difficult (eg I got a PhD without much difficulty, and I find writing easy) but directions, names, and anything DIY I'm terrible at. Just because YOU don't find learning names difficult doesn't mean there aren't people that do. I can't believe I just had to explain that to a teacher 🤦‍♀️

I'm a teacher and I'm terrible with names. I know the ones I see regularly, but I do still get them mixed up sometimes - particularly after a holiday. Though the kids I teach tend to think it's funny. They know that I know their personalities, strengths, weaknesses so the fact I occasionally forget a name isn't a big deal to them.

I'm happy to be corrected (politely) when I get it wrong though. Querying the behaviour point is definitely the right approach.

But it's not HER name, so why should she put up with continually being called by a different name?

I am repeatedly called by a different name, I either correct them or ignore them if they do not learn from my correction. It's utterly disrespectful to repeatedly get someone's name wrong. And I don't accept the excuse that teachers have hundreds of names to learn. I used to be a teacher and it's really not difficult.

Those are both beautiful names but I definitely seem to have them filed in my head as being the same. It would take a lot to remember if a child was one or the other. (Perhaps I teach your dd!)

Me too

If you're not white or British I'd also consider this racism

This!

I don't really mind things like that, happens to me and one of my kids, it's just a name

My daughter is always getting called the wrong name by a handful of school staff ( think along the lines of Lola or Layla).
She just politely corrects them.
I also correct them if they are speaking to me about her but I also appreciate that they have hundreds of names to remember.
I wouldn't be happy if she got told off for correcting them though!

It’s ok for the teacher to get the name wrong but not ok to give out behaviour points when it’s corrected

What is her common English name, and what is this teacher mis-pronouncing it as?

This is important.

If the teacher is aware they have a problem with getting this particular students name wrong they should make an effort to remind themselves. If your politely worded email about it doesn't work, I'd suggest DD does something similar. Eg teacher is called Miss Smith, so DD calls her Miss Sims until she can gers DD s name right

Oh my god this is pathetic. What terrible advice.

If the teacher is aware they have a problem with getting this particular students name wrong they should make an effort to remind themselves. If your politely worded email about it doesn't work, I'd suggest DD does something similar. Eg teacher is called Miss Smith, so DD calls her Miss Sims until she can gers DD s name right

If you have trouble learning names as a teacher (like me), then you find ways to help yourself! Seating plans are the obvious answer. I have a seating plan in my hand to help me with names constantly for the first few weeks of the term. It is not acceptable not to address kids by their actual name and I am quite frankly shocked by the attitude of some teachers on here. Being seen by the teacher and known by name is important, otherwise you might as well just call them boy or girl!

At first I thought it was something like mixing up a part of the name. Like calling someone Abdul rather than Abdal.
But if it's something like calling them Jasmine, when it's Jennifer, or Thomas, when it's Teddy, then it's time to flag it with the school, most definitely!

Give there's been a whole year of the teacher getting the name wrong, not just a few weeks of term I think it's only polite to let the teacher know. Otherwise your DD runs the risk of being marked down for participation if the teacher isn't really aware who she is.

I had a teacher call me Angela as opposed to Ariela for an entire year, by the last half term of the year I declined to answer to Angela, and would wait for a slap round the knuckles with a ruler " 'Angela' I'm talking to you'' so I kept saying 'Oh I AM so sorry I thought you meant Angela (another girl in another class) not me, I am Ariela'. I think it no coincidence I got grim marks since the teacher had no clue who I actually was.

Very few teachers teach ‘multiple
hundreds’ of students a year.

I am not even sure what kind of teaching position you are thinking of with young kids where you are with the same class multiple times a week but still see ‘multiple hundreds’ of kids a year.

most teachers do not know all their children's names, how on earth could they? You are talking about multiple hundreds of new faces every year - be realistic!

The vast majority of teachers do know the names of their students. I have encountered one or two like you who don't give a flying $*%& about the students and don't bother to get to know them at all but that is pretty rare. Classrooms function much better if the teacher has some basic rapport and relationship with the students and not even caring what their names are or who is who is going to lead to lots of problems in the classroom.

What is a behaviour warning and what's the result of getting them, that's awful

It's understandable that they don't know all the names.
It's not ok for them to punish the child for correcting them.

I think it s quite funny that so many posters actually think teachers know all your childrens names.

I think your daughter should just not respond to the wrong name. She can say she didn't realise she was being spoken to as she wasn't named.

It is Rebecca and Rachel because my DD has a huge issue with this with one of her teachers?

Yes I do.

That's part of your job, to know the names of the kids you are teaching. That is why it is rare and noteworthy when constant mistakes are being made of this nature.

It also wouldn't be that bad if the teacher apologised instead of giving behaviour warnings.