To be annoyed that the teacher spelt Dd name wrong on school report

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We have just finished our school year here in NZ so I have just received DD (year 10 - 15 yrs) school report and her economics teacher spelt her first name wrong on the report in the comments section. Someone has circled with pencil around the name.

DD name is a variation of a very popular name and their is only one letter difference, her name is not that unusual and now it is reasonbly popular but when she was born it was very uncommon. The teacher spelt her name the way the very popular name is spelt.

AIBU In thinking Dd teacher who has taught her for the whole year should have spelt her name right on the school report? I'm prepared to be told I'm overreacting.

My DSS' year 6 school report referred to him twice as "Christopher" which was not his name. Cut and paste error I expect. Found it quite amusing. Christopher was the clever boy in the class so secretly we were quite pleased.

My primary school son was named as Andrew instead of Michael, good at French when he wasn't and then reported as 'she is an excellent sportsman'

It had been signed by the teacher, and head teacher. I did send it back to the head teacher with these anomalies as I did expect it to have been proofread before it went out.

It is a bit annoying but teachers are capable of human error just like everyone else- especially when they have written hundreds over a short space of time! It's just a typo- an annoying one but it is just that.

YANBU, and I'm a teacher who has written hundreds of reports.

It's mildly annoying, but it wouldn't bother me.

I have spelled DSs name the traditional English way, but the European version is very popular here.... So in DSs class there is another boy with the same name but different spelling. Yes it would annoy me if his school report had the wrong spelling if his name.

In fact it would annoy me more than the time ds1s school report had several references to him as though he was female.

I don't hink yanbu.
my name was spelt incorrectly on my final report/certificate and I had to have it corrected as it is an official document and the university wouldn't have accepted it.

sorry yanbu

My ex and I saw a show and went to the stage door to get autographs on the programme. One comedian asked our names and then promptly put the female version on the male name and the male version on the female name ( think Leslie : Lesley and tony : Toni ) not the actual names btw! And we actually said our own name so he knew which was which!

My husbands surname has many similar versions which all come from the same root and have the exact same version in the Irish language. Foolishly I took it when I married him. He warned me that my marriage cert was likely to be the only correct version of it I saw again. So far 9 years on he is more right than wrong. This is not helped that it has been written incorrectly on my student's timetables since I started lecturing, in spite of many suggestions early on to change it, so my students never get it right. It bugs me but I let it go. My children's unusual first names are rarely spelt correctly so they will have the joy of being Arbitrary O' Arbitrary all the way up. Pretty annoying.

The teacher will have had 100s of reports to write. It looks like they have circled the name to query later and then forgot about it. Just a mistake
I'm always a bit meh about things like that have far more important things to worry about such as getting out of bed with this cracking hangiver

If you choose to spell a common name in a 'quirky' way, that's probably going to happen. Or spellcheck might change, say, Katee to Katie.

A typo is a sign of a crap teacher?
Sheesh.

No you're not over reacting. I think it's ignorant to mis spell peoples' names especially when you know how a name is slept, it doesn't matter how unusual it is.
For example my name is Clare and I hate it when people mis spell it Clair.

My name is Anne and I regularly get it speld Ann. When I was a small child my mum did let the school know when they spelt it wrong as she (my mum) was spelling it with an e and I would say 'well Miss spells it without and she must be right.' In this scenario she wasn't unreasonable, given I only had one teacher and I was still learning how to spell my name. While I understand your frustration it can be more difficult for lots of teachers to remember one child has the less common spelling-I had loads of teachers in secondary school spelling it wrong and I was a bit :meh: about it then.

I think it's ignorant to mis spell peoples' names

No, it is a mistake. As is mistyping the word "spelt" as "slept"

I think it's poor to misspell someone's name especially if you are (presumably) working from a class list where it is correctly spelt.

However, as someone with an unusual name with even more unusual spelling who constantly find that people reply to emails from me (where my email address contains my first name and I have signed off my original also with my first name) with a misspelling of my name, I think that you and your DD will have to accept that this is going to happen her whole life (and if she's got to 15 without it happening yet, you are doing pretty well!)

She got the name right just the spelling wrong. She knows who your daughter is; she hasn't referred to her by a different name. Your daughter wouldn't be receiving a better education if her Economics teacher hadn't made a minor misspelling or typo