Teacher continually getting DD’s name wrong

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DD mentioned when she started school last year that her English teacher was consistently getting her name wrong. I laughed it off saying she had lots of names to remember and I’m sure she would get there.

A year later and it’s continually happening. She teaches her 3 times a week so it’s not as though she rarely sees her, I’ve told DD to politely state what her name is each time she calls her by the wrong name. DD did so this week and was given a behaviour warning for being rude.

DD’s name is a standard name but not common so equivalent of the teacher calling her Jasmine when her name is Jennifer.

AIBU to say something to school or the teacher when we next have a parents evening?

Did you email the teacher OP? What happened?

Exactly the kids can't even finish lunch or go to the loo without being late in some schools.

Or ask the pupils to wear a name badge like we do in industry even a sticky one

Don't you know how hard teachers work? Your DD should just change her name ffs

A few of us teachers got together informally to discuss the problem of children correcting us in a chorus when we accidentally got a child's name wrong (Primary). We decided to present the following facts to our classes. 1.We had not forgotten their names. 2.Addressing a person by the wrong name was a genuine mistake. There was no disrespect involved or intended 3.If teacher is looking at a particular person, that is the one she is addressing. 4.When in school the classwork is our main concern. It was not helpful to interrupt this by chanting out people's names. 5.They could be assured that when writing their names, or announcing them at a presentation, we would be one hundred per cent certain of spelling and pronouncing them accurately, even the unfamiliar ones with their origins overseas There was no mention of any sanction for a non compliant child. When we reconvened a week later, just one girl out of four classes had experienced difficulty with the new class rule. She was a person with other behavioural issues. Would you tactfully ask the teacher to give a similar message to the class? Maybe your child is being teased about the wrong name issue.

The girls name should be pronounced however the girl and her parents intended. It's rude to say "it's wrong / it should be pronounced...."

One of my DS's teacher kept getting his name mixed up with his friend for the first few weeks. In fairness the two of them looked quite alike (even I would have mixed them up from the back).

Every time she got it wrong she would have to give them a sweet. They delighted in correcting her which meant that she didn't continue to get it wrong for too long.

It's generally same person /people whose names are confused. Many teachers are in agreement about this. It's like getting the words of a song or poem wrong and then trying to unlearn them. When a teacher gets a name wrong she's inclined to repeat the error when engrossed in the subject at hand. She has not forgotten who the pupil is. When the classwork is less intense it does not happen. It's helpful to explain this to the pupils. Nobody is being disrespected or targetted.

I’d 100% be complaining about getting the negative behaviour point. It’s pretty rude of the teacher to not bother to get her name right then punishing her when she complains? I’d be getting that negative point removed

Teacher here and if I mispronounced once I would apologise, make a note and get it right next time for all of my 15 classes! Sometimes I did slip up still and then Amber note made! If it happened a third time I would red note! A name is a child's identity and should be respected. We do get it wrong sometimes, often many times, with so many names to learn but I hope they know it's because I've been an idiot! X

Unless you have a very common name people are going to mispronounce it all your life.It would be energy consuming and frankly fruitless to raise an issue every time.Choose your battles wisely.

I’d write an email to the school asking them to check what name is recorded for your dd on the English class register because she is always addressed using the wrong name. And I’d add that could they please remove the behaviour sanction that was given when your dd stated that her name was Emma, not Emily or whatever.