Chav names make your kids thick!!

[mancmum]

Anyone seen this in the MAil today (read at work!!)

Seemingly government research has found that kids with middle class names like KAtherine and Duncan do 8 times better in school than Waynes, Dwaines etc..

Some teachers have said that PAiges are the worst girls of all and that the following names arose the following comments:

Adrienne (kiss of death - spiteful, sneaky or both), Alanna, Ashleigh, Britney, Candice, Chantelle (spawn of the devil), Chelsie, Chelseigh, Chloe (nasty, spiteful).

Cindy (always a pain in the a**e) Courtney, Cortnee, Cortnie (trouble), Danielle (a nightmare), Jade, Jodie, Jordan (pretty bad for a girl), Kayleigh (a pain), Keeley, Keira (live in fear), Kimberley, Kylie, Leanne, Leigh, Lou-Lou,

Mia, Paige, Poppy (hyperactive and not very bright), Stacey, Tyler (lesson disrupter).

And these are the boys' names that the teachers most fear: Ashley, Chayse, Conor, Connor (a nightmare), Curtis, Damon, Declan, Dillon/Dylan, Dwayne (a terror), Grant, Jordan, Josh (arrogant, nasty, selfish.

Kade, Kane, Kieron, Kyle (always spells trouble), Liam (always a bad lad), Mason (a horror), Mitchell, Myles, Painton, Rhys / Reece (a nightmare), Ryan, Scott (live in fear), Shane (a terror), Troy, Tyler (lesson disrupter), Wayne (a terror).

What do you think?

A good point Eaney

Seems a name really is a label

I had a good laugh at this, along with all the rest of us, but I cannot believe that anyone in the Government could commission such crappy research. Most of the names on this list would be given disproportionately to working class kids, while the 'good children's' list is disproportionately middle class. All the research shows is that middle class children tend to do better at school and have better relationships with their teachers. This is hardly news.

No-one did the research....it started as a light hearted thread on a teachers website

I was joking as well. Oh well I'll give up my dreams of atand up.

Bet there is someone doing the "research" somewhere though..gutted for them

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a few years ago my heart would sink if I got a James or Jason in my class - they were always trouble!

lol as I taught a Troy once - he was a 'lesson disrupter!'

All my Chloes have been fine, and James.

Once taught a Christian who was something else!

And Daily Mail journalist is clearly spending too much time on parenting websites and having to justify it in the name of a story

I do think it's interesting though Oldiemum because it may say something about some teachers' expectations of working class kids and how this might lead to their underachievement. This may be quite relevant to debates like why so very few working class kids are getting to uni these days. It's not govt commissioned though, you'll be pleased to hesr, just based on the views of a few teachers chatting on the web and so maybe pretty unrepresentative anyway.

I'm called Stephanie and I'm not a "naughty boy" (to quote cod)

its simply not true. my boys are a bit thick and are not on the list.

I think not having grant support has a lot more to do with it that teachers not liking their names.

Loads of the kids I teach don't think about uni because of the costs.....that and they think it is like an extension of school (when they tell me that it is all I can do not to say 'WTF, are youmad ?'

Is Jodie Foster thick as pig shit?

or Jodie Kidd?

I have an Eleanor - is that good or bad? There seems to be an awful lot of them now

Ha! Just found out that Jodie Foster's real name is Alicia

Oh dear- not an Eleanor.
Notoriously bad, I've heard.