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

Being that Pearlman has spliced her own commas on this thread, I doubt that's what she's referring to.

Pearlman:

Apple has asked you very nicely for your input but all you can say is that you are on holiday from school?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I thought Pearlman was a man. Weird.

Talk about wriggling in a tight spot. Lol

On what grounds can we expect someone to take more care with something 'important' when their unimportant work is sloppy? Can we expect this of everyone, across the board? So, for example, if my doctor mis-reports my blood test results, I shouldn't grumble, because I should trust implicitly that she would have definitely, 100% taken more care in transcribing something more important, such as biopsy results? Because that's a fundamental rule of what people always do?

Sell them on eBay.

Worth quite a bit to someone whose name is spelt like that. Easier than earning the award in the first place.

Talk to me, Pearlman. We all need your pearls of wisdom.

Bip:

Good post.

Wow this thread seems to have lost its way

I worked as a classroom assistant for a year in a high school. Come report time at the end of the year three different teachers asked me who several children were and what I thought their reports should say. They had taught them and marked their work for a school year and didn't have a Scooby who they were. They were all middle ability kids who quietly got on with their work . I was pretty horrified tbh so so long as they know WHO your kids are that is what counts (although my son's year 2 teacher sent a list of spellings home to be learned "twenty, thirty, fourty" )

There is no practical impact on the OP or her child arising from the typo

I disagree. You are underestimating a child's feelings here. It takes the shine off their achievements and would make them feel undervalued when someone can't even be bothered to spell their name correctly on a certificate. Yes, it's not a degree certificate, but to a young child things like this are important.

School newsletters are one of the ways a school represents itself. Typos etc in a newsletter are lazy and implies the school doesn't set a particularly high standard. Why should the children bother when the adults don't?

I think I remember reading that Pearlman states that Mumsnet is like a parallel universe? I'd have to agree when you have the head of the English department arguing that spelling doesn't matter!

I think here lies the problem trafalgargal. My girls are academic and we'll behaved at school. But they are not part of the alpha girls group. You know the ones who are picked for everything. They are not sporty enough to be in the teams or confident enough to get big parts in the plays etc. Dd1 especially goes to all the auditions but only every gets a teeny part. So yes I think that is part of the problem.

Damn auto-correct. Really need to switch it off.

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. - office lackeys? That shows how much you think of and value the people in the school office who look after your child when s/he hurts her/himself, who changes the clothes when s/he has an 'accident', who writes the Awards Certificates... if you don't even value the 'lackey', why shuold the 'lackey' value your child's name? Wow

Ptumbi, try putting your lunch down for an hour, or eating it earlier and concentrate on the task at hand - ie. your job! - yep, that would necessitate ever single day, delaying my lunch, having only half a lunch hour (oh, hang on, I actually never do get a full hour!) and in fact I get paid for a lunch hour to be taken at the same time as school dinners.

Concentrate on ,my job? My 'job' changes from minute to minute - child with grazed knee (5 mins), phone (2 mins), work on bank statement (15 mins), door/reception (10 mins), child with bumped head (10 mins), bank statement (10 mins) - throw in 100+ handwritten certificates, and everything else, including lunch - but NEVER including child with injury or needing something - gets put back.

I love my job - it is never the same day twice.

OP if you are so upsedt about this that you need to start a thread on MN - please go back into school in September and ask for a new certificate. If it were me, I'd be happy to rewrite 'George' as 'Jorj' or 'Lucy' as 'Loozi','Lusy,'whatever.

I've already said that I should have used another word other than lackey, however I stand by the rest of my posts.

I've worked in a position that would make your average school office assistant's head spin on their shoulders - it would still really concern me if I was getting something as simple as people's names wrong. You didn't seem all that concerned that you might because, busy(!), lunch(!), 100 certificates(!) etc.

I'm sure there are a hundred people out there who would be thankful to do the job, and would make sure they spelled pupils' names correctly.

I have said several times that it is not an unusually spelt forename which had created the problem. It is a surname I inherited which just happens to have a few different derivations. All equally valid.

ptumbi you seem to be implying I am at fault for picking an unusual spelling of a forename. This is incorrect.

If it's been spelt correctly twice it can be spelt correctly every time, surely.

DropYour Sword:
Re. your last paragraph and Pearlman's pontificating - most amusing. Lol

I think Pearlman came on to the thread to be all Head of English- assertive and to argue the toss by saying something stupid and by being obnoxious.

Epic fail.

So spelling of people's names doesn't matter? In what sort of parallel universe, pray? Sadly, you can't always get the right sort of staff these days to feel the role of "Head of English"...lol

ptumbi:

Gosh! You are such a busy bee! Imagine how scarily busy you would be in a big secondary school and how many times you would have to comfort hulking 16 year old with grazed knees!!!

Correction:

...16 year olds...

Twowrongs:

Of course that is THE point but let's ignore it in order to further offend a parent who is already justifiably annoyed at the school's sloppiness.

...to fill the role of Head of English.

I don't see this as a 'teacher-bashing' thread, and I'm a teacher.
Spelling somebody's name correctly is just common courtesy.
BTW, I work in a school with around 40% EAL students; surnames with 14 or 15 letters are norm. We do our very best to spell names correctly and are very apologetic and quick to remedy the situation if (rarely) we get it wrong.
I had a letter addressed to 'Mr' recently as an assumption was made about my gender. I was being asked for a reference and the cover letter gave the name of a different applicant entirely! A complete stranger. It's just sloppiness.