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Supply Teacher giggling at name of child in class

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everythingflies · 09/08/2025 22:48

Is it very unprofessional for a supply teacher to start giggling when taking the register in a class which they have not taught in before, because one of the children's names is "Bourbon"? Supply teacher in question is normally very professional but couldn't help themselves when hearing the name of the child.

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DarkFate · 10/08/2025 10:00

Dontwasteyourbreath · 09/08/2025 23:26

If you saddle your child with a ridiculous name, sometimes people, including supply teachers, are going to laugh at it. Who, exactly, is surprised by this?

I agree. Whilst it’s unprofessional and not nice for the child that’s what happens when you give your kid a stupid name

Ifeellikeateenageragain · 10/08/2025 09:59

ElfAndSafetyBored · 09/08/2025 22:55

Bourbon? To be fair, it’s probably helping them build them a thick skin for the rest of their life, they’ll need it.

I’m not condoning it, honest I’m not. But why name a kid after a biscuit?

Possibly a surname... which is French. Amazingly, the whole world doesn't revolve around British products.

Isxmasoveryet · 10/08/2025 09:55

Sesma · 10/08/2025 09:43

Probably posts on here from the suggestions I have read on the baby names threads

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Seriously do the people suggesting such ridiculous names not understand that a poor child has to live with this name and they will grow up and go to school and the real world or are they to airhead to realise this

Sesma · 10/08/2025 09:43

Isxmasoveryet · 10/08/2025 09:39

What sort of person calls their kid bourbon come on no one would be that daft may as well hand your kid over to the school bully on day one n tell them to get on with it

Probably posts on here from the suggestions I have read on the baby names threads

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 10/08/2025 09:40

NineTimesNine · 09/08/2025 23:06

I mean, it’s not my favourite name, but to find it that amusing you’d have to think it was a biscuit rather than a Franco-Spanish royal house. I mean, it’s no odder than using Windsor or Tudor as a first name.

Well a biscuit is certainly the most commonly known use of the word surely?

Isxmasoveryet · 10/08/2025 09:39

What sort of person calls their kid bourbon come on no one would be that daft may as well hand your kid over to the school bully on day one n tell them to get on with it

MaidOfSteel · 10/08/2025 09:25

Is it the kid’s first name? And is it pronounced how we’d say it, bore-bon? Or the American way, burr-bun?

if it’s a first name, and no matter which way it was spoken, I think I’d chuckle inside, too!

Dontlletmedownbruce · 10/08/2025 09:24

Really really unprofessional. I work with pre schoolers, about 50% of everything they say is hilarious and suppressing laughter is pretty much training 101. They ask dumb questions and get words mixed up all the time. We never laugh at them, we wait til they are out of earshot and then have a giggle. Having a grown up laugh at your name or something you say or do absolutely wrecks a kids confidence. Unfortunately a kid with a weird name has to learn to cope with this throughout life so will have to learn to live with laughs or silly comments.

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Pluvia · 10/08/2025 09:20

OP, depends on whether Bourbon was his first or last name. Last name, unacceptable. Bourbon is an honourable surname. First name, understandable. I blame the parents and if they didn't want this to happen they should have called him Archie or Oliver.

If it's poor Bourbon's first name, I predict he'll one day follow the lead of Zowie Bowie and change his name to Duncan or something similarly rebelliously dull.

TaborlinTheGreat · 10/08/2025 09:20

Of course it's unprofessional. Yes, teachers are only human, but teachers should also be used to the concept of coming across surprising names. Having your name mocked or laughed at by your peers must be bad enough, but having it laughed at by the adult who should be in charge of stopping that kind of behaviour is even worse. Once the other kids see the name as laughable, that will probably stick.

I've taught kids with frankly hilarious names. I've never come close to laughing at them to their faces, because I have self control and I'm not a dick.

KimberleyClark · 10/08/2025 09:18

Andbegin · 10/08/2025 09:09

I think he was called Jack Daniel’s.

Caught Op unawares as it’s so incongruous in a classroom situation.

Or Jim Beam. Or Johnnie Walker.

58andnotout · 10/08/2025 09:16

Yes , it wrong. Just as bad as you putting the name on here.

CurtainSunrise · 10/08/2025 09:12

I have worked in the nhs for thirty years and have heard all sorts of names. I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid at that name, never mind giggled. Lots of easily-amused people on this thread!

nomas · 10/08/2025 09:12

whatacroc · 10/08/2025 00:35

Hope the supply teacher manages to compose herself in September when this new child joins the class...

Why are you only choosing black actors to make fun of?

OP, yes it’s completely unprofessional and twatty behaviour.

AmazonianWarrior · 10/08/2025 09:11

ElfAndSafetyBored · 09/08/2025 22:55

Bourbon? To be fair, it’s probably helping them build them a thick skin for the rest of their life, they’ll need it.

I’m not condoning it, honest I’m not. But why name a kid after a biscuit?

We don’t know but it might be a surname?

Andbegin · 10/08/2025 09:09

I think he was called Jack Daniel’s.

Caught Op unawares as it’s so incongruous in a classroom situation.

Mumdiva99 · 10/08/2025 09:09

Chiseltip · 09/08/2025 23:24

Who on earth named their child Burbon?
😂

That kid is going to spend their life having the piss taken out of them and people laughing at their name.

May as well start getting used to it . .

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I imagine it's pronounced Bore-bon - a bit like pom-pom....but in a sing song French accent....

Sesma · 10/08/2025 09:06

The parents were being unreasonable

Oioisavaloy27 · 10/08/2025 09:05

Are we going to find out the child's surname is McVities?

cumbriaisbest · 10/08/2025 09:02

Teacher laughs. Yes report them immediately for showing human characteristics.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 10/08/2025 09:00

ElfAndSafetyBored · 09/08/2025 22:55

Bourbon? To be fair, it’s probably helping them build them a thick skin for the rest of their life, they’ll need it.

I’m not condoning it, honest I’m not. But why name a kid after a biscuit?

The biscuit is named after a dynasty of French Kings.

( but it is still a strange name for a British child).

WaltzingWaters · 10/08/2025 08:58

It’s really cruel to the child and unprofessional.
But what on earth were the parents thinking? Poor child. They have given a hell of a lifelong challenge there.

Oioisavaloy27 · 10/08/2025 08:57

When parents choose these names for their children they are leaving them open to ridicule through most of their life not the child's fault but the fault of silly adults who don't think about the consequences for the child.

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