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.

Thinking about it, I wonder if it's the whisky and the child is actually Jack Daniels?

Bourbon?? It would be hard to keep a straight face tbf…

poor kid

Mr and Mrs Baldy thought Gary was a fine name for their son.

Well it's not great but, let's face it, this is probably not the first time and will certainly not be the last time someone expressed surprise and probably amusement at this name. It sounds a bit harsh to say the child will have to get used to it but they have only their parents to thank for that.

Sorry but can't help 😂 at that.

The headteacher will be shocked to receive the complaint: "Oh crumbs!"

I thought of alcohol.

And Windsor and Tudor would be odd first names.

Custard Cream would be funnier!

Or an alcoholic drink. No not professional but coulda seen this coming day one.

Someone I used to know actually had his family name changed because his primary school teachers laughed at it. That’s what he told me anyway. He never told me what it was originally (we weren’t that close).

I always wondered if they were just thin skinned and it was just something like Pratt or Butt (perfectly good names) or if it was something really funny like Wanker or Bastard.

I’ll never know.

You lot are really taking the biscuit now 😂

I used a solicitor once whose surname was Boobyer. I was told to call him Mr Boobyay not BoobyER. Nope still has boob in it!

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OP please tell us your role in this. Are you the supply teacher, the teaching assistant, parent if a child involved?

Who on earth named their child Burbon?
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That kid is going to spend their life having the piss taken out of them and people laughing at their name.

May as well start getting used to it . .

Happened to my child too :( My daughter Custard Cream came home very upset!

If you saddle your child with a ridiculous name, sometimes people, including supply teachers, are going to laugh at it. Who, exactly, is surprised by this?

I thought of the drink . .

It is not amusing though. Even if it was, the teacher should have the ability to control themselves and not treat a child abominably.

Oh come on! Stop and think about it for a moment. Who couldn't laugh at that? Maybe she couldn't hold the laugh in and it wasn't her fault. I think you are being unreasonable OP, people can't help a laugh reflex. She probably didn't laugh on purpose! That is a batshit ridiculous and insulting name for a child. That poor child! I swear some parents really hate their children and want to get revenge for a bad labor or something.

Yes it unprofessional.

Having been a teacher for 22 years, there isn't a single name that surprises me anymore but I wouldn't even think to laugh at a name. An internal eye roll at parental choice maybe but not a laugh, that's mean, unprofessional and childish.

Oh how I miss the laugh reaction!

Far worse to call a child Bourbon really, the parent must know that it's going to raise eyebrows through the child's life.

Hopefully the child was named after the biscuit and not the chinniest of chinny Royal families...

Tudor's often used. I think it's Welsh. I've known three.

Named after region in france?

There are far far worse names than Bourbon. My childhood nemesis had the surname Nappi. They surprisingly didn't get much teasing for it but later changed it to Nappey by deed poll.