How child's name is pronounced

Yes tell the teacher. But be nice about it.
Teachers are leaving in droves. Just do it kindly and respectfully. I'm sure they aren't trying to say it wrong 😕

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Including Kirsten!

I lived next door to JamesHillierHyphenBrooke. All one word. Never known as James, or anything else.

I had this when my child started nursery age 2.5. The staff just could not get the pronunciation of his name right at all, partly due to their own first languages and unfamiliarity with the name (though it's not an unusual name). I mentioned it at every drop off and pick up for a while, maybe a couple of weeks, and eventually they were all staying it correctly. All you need is a couple of them saying it right and the other teaching staff will hear and pick it up.

I just said 'just to let you know you pronounce it rather than +++' and noone seemed offended. It's important for your child that they say it correctly, and at this young age you need to advocate for them! But I don't think you need to make it a major deal, just regular reminders.

I think this is the key.

If it is an accent thing, then you need to explain that to your son and jolly him along.
If it is the "2 ways to pronounce a name and the teacher is using the other one" then I can't understand why you didn't mention it when you dropped him off the 2nd morning.
There are lots of names that can be pronounced in different ways - best to get it the right way before it gets imbedded.

That said, I knew 2 little girls of similar age at one point, both called Maya. One family called their dd 'My-ah' the other called theirs 'May-ah'. I just got a mental block with them in the end, knowing that they were different but not being able to remember which was which.

I mean plenty of names have pronunciation that doesn’t follow their phonetic spelling.

I’ve met several Naomi’s over the years and they have all pronounced it nigh - oh - me.

Is it Farley Drexel Hatcher?

Don't be ridiculous. There are plenty of ordinary names with more than one pronunciation.

They can pronounce it how they like but I don't have to like it.

Not if the person pronounces it Nigh-O-Mi it isn't.

Fair point

Same here. Naomi is fine but Nigh-O-mi is awful.

Of course you should

That will work with the class teacher, but if there's a note on record then it saves having to have the same discussion with peripatetic teachers and cover teachers. (I guess that it depends on the school set-up - not all primary schools have one teacher teaching all subjects: at least in my area, it's common to have peripatetic teachers of art, drama, music and P.E.)

Yes, the class teacher might remember to inform other staff, but there's nothing wrong with sending a brief, pleasant email to the school office.

Either that or blinded by ignorance….

Define "sensible" because a lot of the kids in my LO's class have names I can't pronounce as I haven't ever heard them before. I've now seen them written down and am still not entirely sure. I don't know if they are "sensible" as they are not names from my culture. But I'm not going to assume they aren't sensible just because I don't know how to pronounce them. Instead I'll educate myself and get it right.

Same here. I don't understand where people even get the "nigh" sound from - the only "i" is at the end 🙄

Unless there is a barrier to verbal communication I would suggest OP simply speak to the teacher

Oh, there was a Gooey in Dundee at one time!

I have an Eastern European maiden surname. Over the years, I found that parents and pupils had a better chance of pronouncing that than they did my Scottish married surname.

I never got uptight about mispronunciations. (People tend to get my forename wrong too.) However, I totally understand that a child might get upset.

Schools usually do try to get it right.

I recall one time when I covered another teacher's class and mispronounced a girl's name. I immediately corrected myself and apologised. Still got the father threatening to report me to the Director of Education.

This happened the week of my mum's funeral. I recall my HT telling me that he'd had to bite his tongue when speaking to the father.

@7catsisnotenough , we had French names for French too. It was OK for those with names with French equivalents but those of us who didn't got lumpy old-fashioned French names..

There's a big difference between having a fun French/German/Spanish name for use in language classes at school...

And

Changing a child's assigned non-English name, which is a representation of their national or cultural heritage, to an English name for use in all school classes/recreation.

One is deeply offensive and racist.

The other is a bit of fun.

HTH

As a teacher, we had the opposite - a Sîan whose parents wanted the name pronounced Sigh-Anne.

Slight difference between using a French name for French class and saying DC should only have English names (whatever they are) for school.