To think this is a bit poor.

[Highlandfling80]

At the end of the year dds school does various Awards. Most do not involve a certificate but your name appears in the newsletter.
Well my Dd received 5 Awards but on 3 of these her name was spelt wrong.
Now I know this is trivial and the end of term is busy and the odd error is expected.
However to me this is a bit sloppy.
Aibu

All and you are getting a hard time Pearlman because you are being a hypocrite. Telling me this is trivial and I am after my pound of flesh . Yet continually returning to have another pop.

Let me see. 3 different spellings of same name on actually 2 separate newsletters. One year apart
version x for One subject. Version y another subject and version z for a third subject. A coincidence maybe but I doubt it.

I an only saying that it is odd how involved you are considering you believe it is even more trivial than me. Anyway if you want the last word go ahead. I am done. I want to spend precious time with my children.

I think it is very poor to produce a shoddy newsletter. If a things worth doing then it's worth doing well.

My daughter's name Katerina is shortened to Katy not Katie. It has an Eastern European basis and is not from Katherine so this is the correct shortened form. It annoys me when people write Katie on awards, as this is not only incorrect but not actually the name on her school file etc. I work in a school and make a point to spell each child's name correctly and ask Samuels if they prefer Sam etc. It doesn't take much effort but means a lot to the child. My daughter has very little respect for people who write Katie and it lowers her estimation of them considerably as she sees them as not bothering to care about her.

Havent RTFT but I happened to meet one of DS's teachers the other day, he spent the whole time calling ds Terry - his name is Dominic (well it's not but it's not bloody Terry!). When we got in the car I asked ds why the man kept calling him Terry (thinking it must be an in joke), he had no idea and hadn't even noticed!

This has happened to my middle child twice. Two consecutive years they have spelt his name incorrectly on a class tea towel and then on a framed art 'master piece' both items were charged at £5 each and no way to rectify the mistake. I was beyond fuming. His name is not common granted, but to me that would mean that you must double check all spellings before going to 'final print'. However, I've had a number of run ins with the school around their management of certain issues and I can't help but think that such mistakes are deliberate. Far fetched I know!

Yanbu! My kids school spell my oldest daughters name wrong a lot she now corrects them. They also refer to me as mrs Fraser when am not married and have a different surname despite me correcting them it also took a year for them to change my address n phone number!

ugh I hate this. All of my Qualifications - the actual certificates inc my degree - have a spelling error in my name. Both first and second. Its not a difficult set of names to spell and I fill in the bastard forms for them.

I've reached the point of not caring and if employers ask for my certificates I do make a joke about it.

I'd have had them all changed but the feckers wanted me to pay because apparently it was my error. I am pretty sure I know how to spell my name and wouldn't make 3 different mistakes on each name.

i would be annoyed as well if my child's name was spelt incorrectly on official paperwork or presentation article's , esp as they managed to get it correct on 2 of them

a polite phonecall or email to the school office to let them know and see if they can maybe re-do them

and yes I had this issue all the way through school and now when stating my name I give the spelling to both to ensure it is correct. Even HMRC have got it wrong even though I write it on the forms! It is their error because they are not copying the information accurately. If they bugger up a simple spelling what else can they get wrong?

My son works for a public service and just about everybody says and spells his name wrong. Even the Passport Office do because they refuse to believe it could possibly spelt that way even though it is a traditionally Welsh name! I've even typed in capitals so there can be no mistake, but no, they just assume. It drives him mad but agrees that it was always a conversation starter. YANBU

If they bugger up a simple spelling what else can they get wrong?

This ^ is exactly the issue. If you can't correctly copy a short sequence of letters you've got in front of you without introducing errors, what hope is there that you'll get on any better with numbers?

My daughter is called Niamh in France! Long story involving inability to find phonetic spellings in both languages, early arrival & only 3 days - THREE! - to register a birth here. All that to say her schools may have struggled with pronunciation but never spelling...

YANBU

It bugs me when smil writes ds2's name and spells it wrong. It's double A not double R!

I have an unusual and uncommon way of spelling my first name, over 60 years I've got used to people misspelling it and I don't get offended by that but to misspell a surname is rude, disrespectful and lazy. I am certainly offended if that is misspelt because anything with the wrong spelling on may not refer to me. To those who think it's a trivial complaint try getting in and out of the country with misspelt passport!

Munch, you named your son Aardvark?

Has to be aaron

Haha Aardvark

Yep, it's Aaron (also it's not pronounced Air -ron like a few people have tried to call him)

It would appear dd knew about the errors the newsletter. One of the girls in her year had seen the newsletter and teased her about it. She had issues with this child.
Only found out at the Library when Dd1 said at least the Library staff always get my name right. I thought she was referring to her residential certificate which was not necessarily schools doing.

In the. Really hating this phone right now.

Munch

If it's aa - surely it's air-on?
If it's a-Ron wouldn't it be spelled Arron?

I'd imagine that's why people are spelling it wrong - I would.