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

Yes, it is actually pronounced Air-ron, Munch. You giving it a different pronunciation doesn't make you right and everyone else wrong

OP - please do take it back into school in sept and get them to change it.

Even FuckingCoat admits to making mistakes in her head-spinning important job,- 'but she thinks it is a BIG DEAL'. Thing is, if she makes a mistake on a letter or correspondence, does the JohnSmythPLC then start a AIBU to suggest it's 'poor'? Or does the company go back to her, point out the mistake (otherwise how would she know it's been made?) and get it changed to JonSmithLTD?

You have not allowed the school to correct or apologise.

And first names and surnames can be commonly spelled, but different - like Katey, Katie, Katy, Matthew, Mathew. Common spellings, maybe, but still wrong. And it's not a matter of looking it up on the 'system' if you have a list of names given to you from the class teacher/subject teacher/head.

I agree it is a matter of moments to check a name - you mean specifically your child's name. Of the 100+ done last minute (of necessity - esp for 100% attendance certificates): that would take rather more than a matter of moments.

Please take it back. Don't consider that it is because the office 'lackeys' can't be bothered. We are busy, but the child always comes first.

And it's not a matter of looking it up on the 'system' if you have a list of names given to you from the class teacher/subject teacher/head.

Have you noticed that Pearlman the teacher blames Admin. And ptumbi the administrator blames the teachers.

Of the 100+ done last minute (of necessity - esp for 100% attendance certificates): that would take rather more than a matter of moments.

Has it not occurred to you to organise the certificates a few weeks before the end of term? Rather than doing 100+ at the last minute and getting some wrong, do 120+ correctly at a quiet moment and then do a last minute cull for those that fall at the final hurdle. Or even start the year with the full, correctly-spelled list and cull weekly as a nice Friday afternoon job. In fact, can't the whole thing be automated using the school register database?

Our local primary is really fantastic, glowing results, OFSTED etc. Yet every newsletter we have had recently has had typos. I am hot on grammar/spelling so to me the errors are glaringly obvious but I seem to be in the minority. Standards are slipping !!!

Disclaimer: haven't RTFT. I would ask to have the certificates redone: just have a kind word with the office and explain they mean a lot and your child will treasure them. (If they are not that important then I wouldn't bother. )

DD2's name was misspelt on one of her two end of year certificates, and correctly spelt on the other. Funnily enough her first name is the same as that of the woman who founded the school. Neither DD1 nor I are very bothered about this small error. The passport office gave me completely the wrong middle name for some reason. I only bothered to get it changed when I renewed, 10 years later. I had to remember to make visa applications etc in the fictitious name of course.

As for Aaron pronunciation: if my DS was called Aaron I would definitely want it pronounced Air-on. Apart from that being the usual liturgical pronunciation, I wouldn't wish any confusion with Arron Banks.

Everyone I know or speak to (Drs, teachers, etc) without me saying anything say A-Ron (a as in Apple - hmm maybe that doesn't work with other people's accent, so maybe I should say it's a hard A?) maybe it's our accent but there are a few Aaron's at the school and they're all pronounced the same way.

There was an Air-Ron that ds1 played footy with a few years ago and he is the only one that I know of.

Bit difficult to go back as only received newsletter end of term. Will probably email in Sept and advise them so they can look out for it in future. Obviously no need to correct previous ones.

To be honest I'd rather my clients start an AIBU about any mistakes as instead they call me and shout.

OP I'm a bit late coming back to this... And I know you were going to let it drop but might not after this thread.

Anyhow, I was one of the posters earlier that suggested getting the newsletter updated - but importantly, not for it to be reprinted and reissued, just if they had a copy of it online (all the schools around here do so I'm guessing there's a reasonable chance that your school might too) to update the online version in case anyone were to look at it in the future. It should only be a five minute job for somebody who is used to creating the newsletter and putting it on the site, and it wouldn't cost them anything (other than that 5 minutes worth of work!) but would show your dd that details are important, plus it might help to focus their minds next time around and stop them from making these errors.

I would not expect a school to get one of its own child's name wrong. Very poor. YANBU at all it's unacceptable.

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Just RTFT my word pearlman really won the Internet by starting out saying it was a trivial matter without context of why and goes on to goad over many many posts then to eventually explain why it is so. Priceless. Head of English, seriously. Pretty sloppy standards. However I now wonder if it's actually due to lack of admin staff rather than sloppiness that this stuff occurs. I really do not imagine the admin staff are careless or not hard working.

OP _ if your dd is being teased because her name is misspelled, maybe teach her to take the power away from the teaser? Her name is sara, spelled Sarah in the newsletter - small smile, 'yes that's how I'm spelling it this month! ' No more power.

My sister, call her Susan, decided very early on that susan was boring, and has been Suzan, suzanne, Suzannah, Soo, Su, Susy, Suz, even Suu in an oriental phase. Try teasing her that her name is spelt wrong!

The PP who suggested that we do 100% attendance the week before and remove those who don't make the final week. Yes, cos that's not making 2x the work at all.

The PP who thinks it can't be that difficult to know the names of the children in our own school - has obv never worked in a school. We have 600+ children. Some are spelled in the common way, some are spelled a different way.

ptumbi why do you continue to give 1St name examples? Your analogy works well for a forename buy not do much for a surname.
My Dd defended herself by saying "at least I featured in the newsletter". This was a perfect put down as this child is always putting my Dd down because she got s better play part etc etc.