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

I try and be so careful with names because there are so many variations. I think an obvious mistake like the PP with the daughter Eva getting completely different names is just laziness and should not happen. But a typo where one letter is wrong is just a typo and should probably be written off as a busy teacher making a mistake if it's not a regular occurrence.

Well Pearlman it was 4 head of departments who spelt the surname wrong but clearly achievement Awards are not the same as external exam entry. Although thinking about it at least one of my exam entries had my surname spelt wrong so it does it did happen.

4 is including Dd2 one.

How hard is it to check a name is correct before you send a letter out?

Most of us manage to do it pretty easily - some of us in almost as busy and stressful a job as a school office.

Can imagine how thick professional we would look if we got names wrong 60% of the time.

It's not a big deal, that's right. Would think its the bare minimum.

OP said she didn't think it was the worst thing ever. She said it was 'a bit sloppy' and 'a bit poor'. She's quite right.

I don't think you can teach children that attention to detail matters if you're sloppy with things like this.

I said it was not the same Pearlman. You seem quite invested in this considering you feel it is so trivial that I shouldn't have wasted my energy typing about it

Yet you are happy to waste energy commenting. OK

Hahah - so I'm a racist now? Heyrobot was whining that the school had 'not bothered' to learn her foreign surname - her words, not mine. I'd suggest that was offensive: If you want to be offended, how about the implication that it was the school 'not bothering', rather than a simple mistake?

In a school of 600+ (nearer 700) kids, there will always be one or two mistakes made. We had over 100 children with 100% attendance ( a massive achievement, BTW, and testament to the amazing teachers and support staff who work long hours and try really hard to get to know their pupils) - the certificates were handed to us for filling in by hand, at 1pm when the Assembly was at 2pm. Me, eating lunch with one hand, writing the certificates with the other, dealing phones/door/children with grazed knees, with the best will in the world will make a few mistakes. Yes it is the work of a moment to check spellings, but on 100+? When you do not have a moment? And honestly - at primary school, even secondary school (where I found that the name wasn't even filled in - we had to do it at home)- Achievement Awards are great, but usually chucked in their boxfile and thrown away when they left school. They don't count towards the degree, you know!

The OP states her child has an unusual spelling; when you insist on a strange spelling, you will find that instead of Dillon/Dillan/Dillen/Dylin/Dyllyn you occasionally get a Dylan. It's a mistake!

Unless it is on official documentation (Bank details, driving licence/passport, degree certificate) I'd suggest OP lets it go.

BTW I have an usual surname myself - easily mis-spelled phonetically, and sometimes hilariously. I don't get offended!

It's not great. My son has a not common/not uncommon name that can be spelled 2 different ways and his school consistently spells it incorrectly. It's sloppy.

No, I wasn't whining. It's not whining just because you feel put out. I never said I was offended but it is unprofessional to continually make mistakes. I doubt anyone has never got someone's name wrong at work. I've done it, of course I have, but when I've realised I've apologised and not repeated it. Isn't that the only acceptable think to do?

It is not an unusual spelling. It is just a name which can be spelt various ways. All equally valid.

Obviously I will be letting it go. I am not going to say anything to the school but TBH I do still think it is poor. The children are expected to spell things correctly and in Our professional lives we are too. Yet my dd 2 had had her name spelt wrong on the newsletter and Dd1 has had it spelt wrong 3 out of 5 times. Assuming that law of averages there must be many more errors on this document.

I think it is worth asking the school - maybe if they could re-issue any certificates with the right name on and correct the name in the newsletter if it's on the website so st least it will be correct if people ever look back at it.

The school might correct it, they might not. But how they deal with your request will show how good the school is and whether it does care about its pupils when a mistake is pointed out.

And to those pointing out that Niamh is the correct spelling - it is if you're talking about the correct Irish version. But it's also a Spanish name which is correctly spelt Neve and there's a slightly different Nieve too. And chances are that there are other nationalities where names are spelt a bit differently, and when parents choose them, they're not always doing it to be awkward a bit different but because they have perfectly valid reasons for doing so.

I am not a teacher though.

Sorry pearlwoman I better get over it now.

I reckon the OP is over it. She's not upset, just thinks it's a bit rubbish.

Ah, OP, I think it's rubbish. Having my name misspelled annoys me greatly, and I invest effort into ensuring I don't misspell other people's names, particularly professionally. It's a lack of respect, a lack of effort and a lack of consideration - all of which are unacceptable to me. Sadly we seem to be in a race to the lowest possible standards, and schools seem to be a particular case where even basic standards do not apply. It may be news to some, but school staff do not have a monopoly on being busy, and many I've encountered would be in for quite a shock in the real world.

Sorry pearlman but I do not believe it is a clerical error. Each subject head gives a list of children's names to get this recognition. One of the subject heads and the staff member doing the attendance Awards managed it. Yet the other 4 if you include Dd2 in it didn't. I don't believe they are typos as you would expect the typo to be the same mistake but the name is spelt three different ways with only one being right.
But fine blame the poor overworked admin staff.

The school might correct it, they might not. But how they deal with your request will show how good the school is and whether it does care about its pupils when a mistake is pointed out.

That will be a good indication. They'll either metaphorically roll their eyes and tell you to get over it, or they'll sort it out.

The problem is that deep down I think it will be the former. We already had an incident where the school bus was late. Dd was taken it by car and was about 2 minutes late. Other children walked and were much later. They were told it wouldn't count as a late as it wasn't their fault. (It didn't) My Dd who arrived earlier and explained the situation was given a late. When I queried it they refused to do anything about it as it didn't really matter.
So just wanted a little winge really.

Vvviola:

No worries! My post was a bit ambiguous!