to expect teacher to spell DS' name right??

[mumbar]

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.

LOL I wasn't that bothered and understood the only using one initial. BUT today came home with his surname (first bit) spelt wrong too on another letter.

I don't expect teachers to be perfect or never make spelling mistakes but being able to spell a pupils name is surely necessary when you want them to learn to write it too??

Oh dear, an LSA in DS' school wrote his name wrong (again!) to day on a certificate he got. DS came home and told me he told Mrs X its is spelt like this and he's cross they keep spelling it wrong

gosh people get so irritable about trivialities. I was the only person in my school with my (old, traditional, not made-up) name. It has been spelt in dozens of different ways and it has never bothered me. Nobody can spell my daughter's name (old, traditional, not made-up) either. So what?

In DS's school report last year his name was spelt correctly in every report except the one in which the teacher commented on his spelling being poor.

I enjoyed the irony.

Exactly CCF! My surname is a perfectly normal Irish name. I have lost count of the various ways it has been spelt over the years, from a very young child at school and even now in my work place.

I have not been scarred by my experience and was able to spell it perfectly well myself.

My mother saw to that.

I get quite excited when I find a 'new' misspelling of my name these days, just when I think I've seen 'em all!

Cat: I always prefer to assume that it's a clever rhetorical device to highlight the issue rather than a mistake.

No-one said I was het up CCF. Read my posts about it amusing me. I am dyslexic and hardly in the position to critise anyones spelling. There are many people here who don't see it as a biggy and those that do.

No-one spells my name right either and often address me as MR as my name is usually related to boys. Back in the old system my GP couldn't find my notes in an emergency as they were in a blue packet and they were treating a girl - as they had been for the previous 10 years

I was embarresed about DS pointing it out to teacher whilst secretly pleased he'd even noticed. He's only just learnt how to spell his really long double barrelled surname himself

I really wasn't addressing you specifically mumbar - lots of posters after you seemed terribly cross about a misspelt name, that's all. As a lifelong 'victim' it has never occurred to me to be insulted by it. My late MIL could never even say my youngest's name right, but she loved her, and she was over 80. My kids notice when their name is misspelled, and I have to hush them if they point it out rather too emphatically!

My boyfriend at school had his middle name spelt wrongly on his exam certificates, and his (frankly, mental) mother came up to the school and yelled at the reception staff until someone managed to organise a replacement. She thought his future employers might not believe they were his certificates. Slightly OTT for a middle name error!

Still, used to really annoy me when teachers mispronounced my name - thought as they were the grown-ups they should be able to say it. They always managed to spell it right, though.

I couldn't spell my midle name for years It's Elizabeth and because of my Dyslexia and I had never actually written it until secondary school I couldn't picture how it should be spelt

Thanks CCF - I was embarrassed when DS said he'd mentioned it to the teacher, I did say it was a mistake and everyone makes them.