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everythingflies · 2025-08-09T21:48:37+00:00

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.

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 10/08/2025 08:52

Procrastination4 · 10/08/2025 08:45

Unless you missed out on the hyphen in your post, looks like there are two teachers with similar names- and this guy is a head teacher.😂 ( Google The Buchan School)

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I did miss the hyphen out! ‘‘Twas indeed Mr Shaw-Twilley.

GleisZwei · 10/08/2025 08:50

Yes, it's rude, but what on earth were the parents thinking?

KimberleyClark · 10/08/2025 08:49

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?

Perhaps the child was named after the drink.

viques · 10/08/2025 08:47

DollopOfFun · 09/08/2025 22:57

Very unprofessional. Really takes the biscuit.

That one’s a cracker!

Chipotlego · 10/08/2025 08:47

Yeah it's unprofessional, but teachers are human too- I am sure we have all fought but lost the battle in trying not to laugh at certain things.

ThePoshUns · 10/08/2025 08:46

Are you the supply teacher?

Procrastination4 · 10/08/2025 08:45

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 09/08/2025 23:37

I’ve posted this before but honest to God there was an SEN teacher at my children’s primary school called Mr Shaw Twilley. A couple of dads had to walk out of a parents evening until they could pull themselves together. The kids didn’t find it funny but the parents did.

Unless you missed out on the hyphen in your post, looks like there are two teachers with similar names- and this guy is a head teacher.😂 ( Google The Buchan School)

PersephoneSeethes · 10/08/2025 08:34

HonestOpalHelper · 10/08/2025 07:51

I had a girl named Aoife in my year 11 years back, I genuinely mis-pronounced it first time we met, whole class including her found this very funny - so it became a gag every registration thereafter that I'd come up with a different obscure way of saying it.

Her daughter is starting year 7 in September, named Siobhan, apparently she is looking forward to what I can make out of that, few years to wait mind as I now tutor 6th form.

That’s really sweet. As someone who has an impossible name and always had it mangled, I empathise with you both.

Hedgehogbrown · 10/08/2025 08:34

Why are you even asking?

LancashireButterPie · 10/08/2025 08:33

Different cultural background maybe?
I saw Fred off First Dates has recently got married and reportedly his wife is called "Fruitcake".
I work with a Dr who's first name is Pu.
Sometimes names that are bog standard names elsewhere, suffer in translation.
Awful to laugh at a child.

TattyBluebell · 10/08/2025 08:31

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 09/08/2025 23:37

I’ve posted this before but honest to God there was an SEN teacher at my children’s primary school called Mr Shaw Twilley. A couple of dads had to walk out of a parents evening until they could pull themselves together. The kids didn’t find it funny but the parents did.

Poor fella! 😂😂😂😂

PersephoneSeethes · 10/08/2025 08:31

GobbledySnoop · 10/08/2025 05:26

Having once taught a Bacardi, I can empathise. But it's never right to giggle or laugh at the child just judge the parents HARD

First name or second name? There are the Bacardi family, just as there are the Cadbury’s etc

MrsMitford3 · 10/08/2025 08:20

Summer holidays are so much fun on MN

x2boys · 10/08/2025 08:15

Well its a pretty stupid name but that's not the child's fault and it wss very unprofessional of the teacher to laugh at it.

Jk987 · 10/08/2025 08:12

How do you know this happened?

Justchilling07 · 10/08/2025 08:10

PamIsAVolleyballChamp · 09/08/2025 23:09

I thought ops precocious kindergartener had brought the issue to her?
'Forsooth Mater I am troubled... this public servant had the gall to show they were human, and had a personality that included HUMOUR!! I am appalled and traumatised!! Send them to the gulag!!'

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An adult laughing at a child’s name, in front of a class full of children, is not ok and it’s unprofessional.
A sense of humour? Is that what your comment is supposed to be!
For people, who aren’t bullies, humour is when everyone is included, not singled out and laughed at.

StampOnTheGround · 10/08/2025 08:09

Definitely unprofessional, but we’re all only human and that name is ridiculous so I can’t really blame them for slipping up.

snowmichael · 10/08/2025 08:03

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?

Far more likely to be named after the French Royal family or the place the child was conceived

ladyamy · 10/08/2025 07:59

mumuseli · 09/08/2025 22:58

Was Bourbon the child's first name?

Was wondering that too. Bourbon as a surname is quite nice, Bourbon Street of New Orleans etc.

HonestOpalHelper · 10/08/2025 07:51

I had a girl named Aoife in my year 11 years back, I genuinely mis-pronounced it first time we met, whole class including her found this very funny - so it became a gag every registration thereafter that I'd come up with a different obscure way of saying it.

Her daughter is starting year 7 in September, named Siobhan, apparently she is looking forward to what I can make out of that, few years to wait mind as I now tutor 6th form.

Superhansrantowindsor · 10/08/2025 07:49

It’s an awful name. Probably just a gut reaction to giggle but these days there is at least one daft name in every class so they should be used to it.

TheQuirkyMaker · 10/08/2025 07:49

LemondrizzleShark · 09/08/2025 23:01

Complain to the head in writing that OP had a child in her class with an amusing name??

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I can't stop laughing at this thread. I'm not sure it is genuine. Even my daughter Rich Tea has had a laugh.

WonderingWanda · 10/08/2025 07:46

Yes, it's incredibly unprofessional. I would 100% wait until I was in the staffroom and then I would have a good laugh with all the other teachers at that ridiculous name. I am assuming that's not the actual name you called you child though and you've changed it for anonymity?

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 10/08/2025 07:44

Pronounced Berbun like the American whiskey or Borbun like the biscuit?

Yes it's unprofessional, but when you get the giggles about something it's hard to suppress it. How do you know about this, anyway? Were you there? Is it your child?

Mousehi · 10/08/2025 07:41

I teach a lot of international students and have had a fair few called fuk, poo and wang. It's definitely unprofessional to snigger. For all I know my name probably means something sewer-cover in mandarin.