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

This was the reason why she didn't get 100% attendance last year so it did actually matter.

Pearlman:

Actually, getting the kids' names right every time on their certificates is more important than the other tasks. Without the kids, there would be no school in which to do zillions of other urgent tasks.

I mean the other "urgent tasks". Lol
You sure do have a skewed sense of what is important. Lol

Your name is your own personal identity. I think it's a bit poor to misspell someone's name. I don't think it's trivial at all.

Highlandfling's posts are absolutely fine, Pearlman. I can't stand when people defend the indefensible.
The school has a shoddy approach. What is the point of churning out Reward Certificates if there are errors in them? It's ridiculous! Why would anyone defend them?

I will never forget the girl behind me in the line at our university graduation, who was practically in tears because her name had been pronounced 'Tasmin' rather than 'Tamsin'. It is really important to get it right as it matters a lot to the individual.

There's no excuse for it. If child 'n' in class whatever has an award you check the database for the spelling.
Any admin NOT doing that is playing shop in the office and not really doing what any admin elsewhere would do. Admin is about the small details, checking etc. My work has previously involved very high numbers of HE student applications (in the thousands). Refering to the correct spelling for anything formal is part of the job.

Thank you ailiith The bizarre thing is that they did the same last year. Dd2 got quite a few achievement Awards. All bar 1 was spelt correctly. Dd1 got one from the same department as the misspelled one of Dd2's and of course it was misspelled too.
Anyway off to bed. Too much wine.

DDs school report had her name wrong on the front of it, plus not one but two handwritten stickers over the top of it - so not only did they get it wrong they corrected it incorrectly, finally got it right and couldn't be arsed reprinting one page...

Kieron is the one that catches me out. So many ways of spelling it. Keiran oh it keeps spell checking the others but teach about four all different spellings. I usually check with the kids. People are always spelling my traditionally spelt name incorrectly. They even give me several completely different names!

YANBU. It matters less now, but what if it was her degree certificate that had the wrong spelling on? what about her passport? or her driver's licence? These things matter, so the school should make the effort to ensure that the names are spelt correctly.

I have a horribly-spelt surname, but DS1's school have so far managed to keep on top of it except once (in the school newsletter) and when I mentioned it in passing, they put out a correction because THEY also thought it mattered.

Am I the only one who's wondering what the name in question is?!!

It is just a perfectly normal British surname. Sorry can't out myself by revealing it.

If the office lackeys can't be bothered to do their job properly, then the school should find someone who would happily accept the wages and conditions (of whom there will be hundreds) to do so. It's not fucking rocket science.

Ptumbi, try putting your lunch down for an hour, or eating it earlier and concentrate on the task at hand - ie. your job!

Pearl, are you aware of how rude you are? It is disrespectful to misspell someone's name, and not apologise or try to correct it. And yes, if you think it's that trivial, move on and be rude somewhere else.

Confuugled1, Neev/Neve is also an Indian boys name if it helps add to the confusion?

Tarts Thank you - a perfect example. And exactly what I was thinking - that the sound Neve would be a name elsewhere, where they would have their own correct spelling!

I have a Noah - to me it's a boys name. But as we discovered when we got some beautiful baby girl things from a Welsh relative - Noa is a girls name in Wales. My mum had left a message about the baby for them and despite being Welsh herself forgot to explicitly say it was a boy, hence the confusion.

Pearlman

"Don't know how you found the energy to type this, it's so trivial!"

Openly laughing at the OP's annoyance, along with oh so very grown up laughing emoji, picking on the OP's spelling/grammar, and telling the OP to "get over it", are all pretty rude IMO.

Maybe I shouldn't have used the term 'lackey', but the attitude of most school office assistants of bloody superiority while not bothering to even get children's names correct (who, by the way, they could have been sending letters/writing certificates for, for up to 7 years) pisses me right off. Like I said, there would be many people only too happy to take the job and do it properly.

You were still rude.

The difference is that it is the person's job to get the certificate/newsletter correct. They are paid to do so.

It is neither the OP's job to ensure her spelling and grammar are immaculate, nor yours to pick her up on it.

She has every right to be pissed off that staff at her children's school can't be arsed to spell their name correctly. It's sloppy and unprofessional.

And I'll keep replying to whomever I please until I'm ready to move on, thanks.

More important than keeping students safe, communicating with outside agencies, recording attendance, entering attainment data, paying wages?

Surely they can do that AND also spell names correctly? Hopefully counting is also not beyond them.

Loving the irony of Pearlman posting so often on a thread she believes is so trivial. 😄