to expect teacher to spell DS' name right??

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Got a typed set of lines for his class assembly home to learn, must do it every night as well as homework etc. Stritch instructions from teacher via DS.

LOL'd when she had written his name and spelt it wrong as well as only 1 initial for his double-barrelled surname (which isn't to much problem tbh).

Did even more when I showed DS and he didn't notice.

FFS I spelt strict wrong in the OP - case settled then

I get really cross when my children's names are mis-spelled

I more bothered my my dd's teacher not saying dd's name right

The very first piece of work my DD2 had in reception had her name mis-spelled.
I felt awful mentioning it to her teacher- but wanted them to know to make sure they get it right in the future.

well they never use the accent but DS often doesn't either, and I don't think you can on a PC, but they have spelt it the conventional way and his is spelt the Spanish way as born there and paternal side of family are from there. Plus it's a shorter spelling and easier to write. There are 2 boys in his class with this name and spelt the same way which why it seems more confusing to me. (think its the welsh spelling too?)

It's right on all his books etc - he's yr 2 you'd think they could spell it by now

30-32 kids in the class, easy to make typos. I have a Portuguese surname and teachers were always spelling it incorrectly. In teh scheme of things, i don't think it's such a big deal. As long as they're teaching your ds to spell correctly then that's all that matters in my opinion.

My DS went to his school for two years. He was on the SEN register so loads of letters re meetings etc. Never spelt his name right once. Not once.

Wasnt the worse thing they did. The 'head of inclusion' passed on DS's personal information re bereavements, adoption, SNs etc to his new teacher. Jolly good, took a year to get him to understand the importance of that. Unfortunately he passed them on to the WRONG teacher. DS started new year with teacher unaware he even had disabilities let alone anything else. Some random however knew all about our business.

Our name has an unusual spelling. I'm not too surprised when DD's teachers spell it wrongly, it does bother me when they tell her they are right and she is wrong !

My son has a common name but we spelt it slightly differently. When people get it wrong we just quietly point out to them and they change it. The only time it does annoy me is when it's being copied ie when we take a prescription to the chemist and the prescription spells the name right but the label on the medicine spells it wrong.

I remember lots of parents telling me that what was going to be DS' school was great, that the headteacher knew every pupil's name.

Fair enough, he does... but does her teacher knew how DS was called? no... not a clue, apart of the initial, she was getting it completely wrong...

I think that that is pretty poor and YANBU. How can teachers expect kids to take pride in their work and ensure that they spell correctly when the teachers can't be bothered to spell the kid's names right? Teaching standards these days worry me, spelling and grammar don't seem to be important anymore.

Everyone spells DD1's name wrong. It fills me with an unreasonable rage.

TBH I'm not raging as she has spelt it correctly on his books etc. Just humoured me that with 2 boys in a class spelling their name the same way it wasn't as if she had 2 ways to remember. Neither of the boys have the 'h' in the spelling.

It's great that they are doing a class assembly and will concentrate on the positives and forgive as is more extra work for overpushed teachers. I may say something if it happens again tho

MRSD

Hijack away - far worse.

In real life I have a very unusual first name and a very very complicated last name. I think you and your son will have to get used to this and chill a bit.

I know of a school where the parents wrote the wrong date of birth on the admission form and the child was in the wrong year group all the way through school. Should not be spelt incorrectly though, especially on formal letters.

DD has sometimes had things sent home with her name spelt wrong - from school, drama, brownies, swimming, family and friends, and all manner of places.

I get incorrect spellings of my name too and it is permanently wrong at the hospital - have asked for it to be corrected many times over the last few years too.

It really doesn't bother me if it is an odd error. A persistant mistake happing all the time would start to niggle, but occasionally no.

People are human - if there is an unusual spelling or more than one way of spelling a name there is always going to be the odd error.

Oh - and I normally just write one initial for a double barrel surname too when working in school. I use the first initial of the name that comes first. I would do exactly the same for a double barrel first name too - just use one iniital.

I think I have been called a name very similar to my real name for years and years and years now. Often by teachers, midwives and generally folk who see it written in front of them - even if I've written it!!

I could let it fly, but it happens so often, that it really pisses me off now!! So now I correct everyone.

Once I had a job where I wore a name badge with my name on it in huge black letters and still folk managed to never get it right!! Used to give me proper rage!

Thing is my name is really really not unusual, not hard to spell or anything. People just somehow assume they are right and I am wrong?

My FIL called me Betty for 15 years. Betty is not my name BTW

My surname is always mispronounced. I really cant understand why. Its said as its spelt. People often use it as a first name so my children get called all kinds of things at clinics etc. I have to be really on the ball or we would miss our turn. I am forever saying 'do you mean xxxxx?'

That doesnt really bother me but it does puzzle me. Dont make it complicated - just say it!

YANBU. My name has an unusual spelling. I would say most people spell it wrongly and it does upset me still when someone I deem to be a friend spells it incorrectly(I am 40!). With both children I gave them names that were easy to spell to avoid such issues. My FIL still spells DS's name wrong on occasion. I give up!

My DS2's name isn't all that hard to remember; it's Taylor. Yet people still insist on calling him Tyler. Pees me off no end.

I have an unusual name, and it always amuses me when people fluff it up :). Even my Grandad still can't get it, and after more than 3 decades still writes my christmas and birthday cards wrongly. One year, he didn't write in it at all and I just got a tea-cup shaped stained card in an envelope. I guess he just gave up that time!