Supply Teacher giggling at name of child in class

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Is it very unprofessional for a supply teacher to start giggling when taking the register in a class which they have not taught in before, because one of the children's names is "Bourbon"? Supply teacher in question is normally very professional but couldn't help themselves when hearing the name of the child.

Yes it's unprofessional and unfair on the child.

Of course it is.

Weird that you have to ask.

It's a bit unprofessional but honestly, that is one of the worst names I have ever heard so can see why s/he slipped up.

Unprofessional yes, but the name probably took them by surprise.

Did this actually happen?

Was you in the classroom

Bourbon? To be fair, it’s probably helping them build them a thick skin for the rest of their life, they’ll need it.

I’m not condoning it, honest I’m not. But why name a kid after a biscuit?

Com,plain to the head in writing. And the supply agency. I'm a supply teacher this is almost unbelievable.

Of course it's unprofessional to snigger at a child's name! It's a bit bullying.

Very unprofessional. Really takes the biscuit.

Maybe they're linking themselves to the Spanish royal family who are Bourbons.

Was Bourbon the child's first name?

Yep, unprofessional if done in front of the child.

However I was once reduced to such a state of uncontrollable hysteria that I had to step outside to calm down, by meeting “Mr Gollum” (I was on a night shift and very sleep deprived, and once I started giggling I just couldn’t stop myself).

I see what you did there!

Complain to the head in writing that OP had a child in her class with an amusing name??

No, I think they meant complain to the head that the teacher laughed at the child's name in front of the child and the whole class?

Might've been a spontaneous reaction though and there's not much that can be done about that.

Isn’t OP the teacher though? So she is meant to complain about herself?

Yes that's what it sounds like to me too.

I mean, it’s not my favourite name, but to find it that amusing you’d have to think it was a biscuit rather than a Franco-Spanish royal house. I mean, it’s no odder than using Windsor or Tudor as a first name.

I thought ops precocious kindergartener had brought the issue to her?
'Forsooth Mater I am troubled... this public servant had the gall to show they were human, and had a personality that included HUMOUR!! I am appalled and traumatised!! Send them to the gulag!!'

OP is an adult and has just put what she claims to be a real child's name on the internet to be further laughed at, just to make quite sure that if this really happened, she's further in the professional soup. She must be crackers.

Yeah, totally taking the biscuit ….

Would have been worse if she’d tried to dunk him in her tea 😂

I think if you called a child Windsor, you’d expect them to suffer. Unless you really liked the actor Windsor Davies 🤔

I do actually know a Tudor. Fine name.