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Calling teachers .. what ate naughty boy names?

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MyNewVenture · 04/12/2012 17:18

Middle class naughty boy names rather than 'Shane' type names. For non teachers, who are the naughty boys in your child's class?

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DowntonSprouts · 04/12/2012 19:11

Are you trying to avoid giving your child a "naughty" name?

FWIW my mum was a teacher in the 1940s. She has dementia and her memory is very poor. However she has a photo of one of the classes she taught and she can name all the children.

There is one little boy that she points to and always says he was a naughty boy. His name was Warren Grin

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MyNewVenture · 04/12/2012 19:10

Poppy, you are being naive if you think that some teachers and others do not think like this. You only have to spend a very small amount of time on this section of Mumsnet that people worry about the impression a name will give to others. You may not have been around when the link to the thread on the teachers' website was here, but it was very shocking that a huge number of teachers had posted.

And I agree with the other poster, read Freakonomics.

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 04/12/2012 19:10

But that's my point. How on earth can it be lighthearted if teachers cringe when they hear a childs name? Without even meeting the child?

It's ridiculous.

usualsuspect3 · 04/12/2012 19:07

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3b1g · 04/12/2012 19:04

This thread reminds me of how difficult it was to think of names for all three of our boys: every time we found a name we liked, either DM or DMil (both teachers) would tell horror stories of all the badly behaved children they'd known with that name.

FrustratedSycamoreSnowflake · 04/12/2012 19:03

I know a few lovely polite Jacks.

ThePoppyAndTheIvy · 04/12/2012 19:03

You clearly need to grow up if you think that "naughty" names exist. Really, read your original post back. It sounds stuck up & VERY stupid. My replies are only in the same vain.

legojunkie · 04/12/2012 19:02

Oscar,George,Jeremy and Kyle.

IsaXMASbelleRinging · 04/12/2012 19:01

HAHA!! This is so funny.

It would be a stupid thing to say if it was meant in a deadly serious, definitive manner. Lighten up will ya?

Naughty is when a child deliberately does things they know they are not supposed to do (well that's the general consensus in my world, who knows in the world of MN though, there is probably no such thing as naughty on here)

3b1g · 04/12/2012 19:01

Stephen / Steven.
Three different boys, three different years. All lovely boys in their way but always being told off. Almost certainly coincidence though.

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MyNewVenture · 04/12/2012 19:01

Oh grow up Poppy. Don't try to make this thread into something it isn't.

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MyNewVenture · 04/12/2012 19:00

Tantrums no of course no-one thinks a name makes a child naughty [though spot the irony here]. It has, however, been shown (in a light hearted) way over the years that teachers tend to cringe when certain names are mentioned. There was a link many years ago to a very long thread on this subject on the main teacher's mumsnet equivalent.

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ThePoppyAndTheIvy · 04/12/2012 19:00

Horrid Henry Grin. Now that is a naughty boy's name.

ThePoppyAndTheIvy · 04/12/2012 18:59

Actually OP, I know two Jacks who have autism - if I were you I'd avoid that name, you know, just in case Hmm.

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FrustratedSycamoreSnowflake · 04/12/2012 18:57

Alfie's are always cheeky and rather funny IMO.
Never come across a "naughty" Luke. Hmm

IsaXMASbelleRinging · 04/12/2012 18:55

Do you have a naughty boy usual ?

As if teachers see a good child as naughty just because of their name! It IS lighthearted.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 04/12/2012 18:52

luke is definitley a naughty boys name

No. No it isn't. FFS, children do not become naughty because they are called luke

TantrumsAndBalloons · 04/12/2012 18:51

It's not bloody lighthearted if someone reading this thinks they've done their child a terrible injustice and made the teachers look at them as "naughty" because they chose a naughty name.

I am actually shocked that anyone would ask?!

Maybe this is why I never post in this topic?

SminkoPinko · 04/12/2012 18:50

One of my children's names is mentioned several times here and in the metro article and the others not once! And he is definitely the naughtiest of my 3 in many ways.

IsaXMASbelleRinging · 04/12/2012 18:50

Luke is definitely a naughty boy name! (and Lucas)

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ThePoppyAndTheIvy · 04/12/2012 18:44

Well to answer the actual question asked in the thread title - was it Godzilla? Or a very hungry crocodile?

FelicityWasSanta · 04/12/2012 18:38

I think if you are a teacher who makes assumptions about a child based on their name you are in the wrong job.

True.

Also, If you are a teacher who honestly can't remember the name of children who have been naughty in your presence... Your memory isn't good enough to be a teacher.

So I am adding my lighthearted tuppence, with the caveat that I know all children with these names aren't 'naughty' and I also know that being 'naughty ' at school doesn't automatically make you a bad person.

Jake
Jack
Nathan
Liam
Clyde
Kristoff
Michael
Jordan

Ps- more than one of those names also features in my own family on perfectly nice well behaved children....

Greensleeves · 04/12/2012 18:38

I think it is daft to expect teachers or anyone else not to notice patterns - if the same thing happens over and over again, one begins to anticipate it. That's just how the human mind works, surely?

But we should (and I am sure most do) make sure we bear in mind that making assumptions is wrong and try hard not to do it. And you can guarantee that if you do cave into your prejudices, you will fall flat on your face at some point.

I know a Rhys and a Matthew who are the most delightful well-mannered and considerate little boys.

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