most teachers i've had usually say "i'm going to try my best, if i say it wrong, ALWAYS correct me. i will keep trying until i get it right." which i find super kind bc even if a kids name is hard to pronounce they don't disregard the fact that it's special
I met a teacher I had two years ago in the hallway a few days ago and she remembered my name...and I even have grown a lot taller in that time, so I was really surprised. I really hope I'll have her again in one of the next school years.
In my Florida district it’s now illegal to call the kid anything else but their legal name, no nicknames. Strictly forbidden. (Unless the student and parent sign a paper online. I thinkkk we all know what they’re trying to do lol)
There was a kid in my class and his name was dartangan "dar tan yon" and my teacher was struggling to say it and then he told her how to say it and he also told her to call him Tanner since it's easier but my teacher said" I want to call you dartangan. That is a gnarly name man I love that." That teacher was AMAZING. How do I have 2,000 likes?!?!?
I also knew a dartangan. he went by D. I met him at a party and even after making him repeat his name 3 times, I still couldn't hear what he said. dartangan, Lance, and brael, (edit: i forgot about kole lol) are the reasons why my mom says I like guys with weird names, even though a. I didn't even like dartangan that much, and b. I didn't like lance at all, he just became obsessed with me.
My boss makes an effort to call me my full (11 letter long) first name. I appreciate it a lot. I don't mind being called my nickname, but I also usually tell people that nickname right away.
I love the "It's hard, so I won't remember" Somehow it's easier to remember 15 different Ashleys in that year, but the one and only Oleksiy you'll probably ever encounter is too much.
It’s easier to remember 20 basic names and slowly match faces and harder to match the name you might not hear everyday with a kid who’s quiet…esp when teachers can meet around over 200 kids on the first day of school
Honestly if I was the teacher.. yea it would be hard for me I’m sorry 😭 it’s easier to remember People with the same names because of their last names personally, but I literally don’t know how to pronounce thst
I kinda disagree bcs I stutter so when exampl it a scenteche like 'with him' but I sound it like 'with them' bcs when I say 'with' my accent comes out and it now says 'wid' so maybe I'm think the teacher has hard time pronounce and memorising
Yeah it's really not difficult for most people to say but I gotta disagree with you calling it weird and creepy for a teacher to talk to their student at their locker. Like- ???. It's not like she followed her outside, she just went to their locker to talk to the student instead of in front of the class.
@@robloxjordithe world won’t be suited for everyone. If you have a debilitating stutter, you can’t be a teacher. Sorry about that but it’s the truth. Teachers need to be able to not only teach the class, but respect their students and their names.
I agree but to a point many my relatives arent able to pronounce my name and its a pretty simple name. Their first language is korean or spanish so they arent used to english as their first language.
I mean but you have to take into consideration she's in middle school my school has 8 class periods that's at least 20 students per class which makes it 160 students names the teacher has to remember and it's not really creepy to follow a student to their locker the teacher probably just didn't want to disrupt class tbh
That teacher doesn’t understand that one of the responsibilities of a teacher is to REMEMBER names I hate to be this person but this is more like that i could ever imagine But TYSM!!!
@@bootylicker_Giovanna is the same length as Samantha. So nope its not that long a name nor is it hard the only excuse a teacher would have here is if the teacher has a speech impediment and cannot say the name.
@@psychopathinthemaking still doesn't make it hard. Deborah isn't as common as Samantha but teachers still say it with out issue. Like just ask the student how their name is said and learn it if you have so little respect for your students that you won't call them their names you shouldn't be a teacher. Giovanna isn't even a very uncommon name. Its easy to say cause it follows standard English pronunciations, its not like my name, Tatijana which is Russian and is said tah tee yah nah, the j makes a y sound. All my teachers learned it and could say it the only ppl I've ever had not learn how to say it are people who thought of me as a number like some bosses or people who's mouths literally don't work right to form those sound. This is a simple matter of respect if a person refuses to learn how to say someone's name when they have the ability to they are being disrespectful.
I worked a summer program at an elementary school this past summer and there was a girl with a somewhat tricky name to pronounce. She told us how it was pronounce and NOBODY said anything else. Everybody called her by how she said it was pronounced and after hearing this, I appreciate that now. It seems like we all collectively agreed to try our best to commit the name to memory and we did!
Me to, and I feel like my name is really simple to figure out it's literally Raina with a J instead of R yet every single teacher calls me daina, Raina, Gianna, Gina, Jana, ect
My name is Cerys (welsh name pronounced keris) I live in Ireland. I’ve learnt that when they hesitate it’s me Oh I also learnt who’s name is ahead of me in every class which it’s the same kid because the teachers hate us and put us in the same class for literally everything (except the 2 classes we pick ourself) but since it goes in alphabetical order I’m next to this kid in every single class. (The only teacher who can get my name right is my art teacher because she actually cares for her students)
As a teacher, nicknames are fine if they come about naturally, the students likes them, etc., but, as a general rule, we should try to learn to pronounce students’ names! Sure, it may take a little while to get the hang of it, but we should at least make a conscious effort!❤️
As a teacher, I tell students to correct me whenever I get it wrong...until I get it right! Some kids are like "it's ok just say it however" but my response is "no, your name is important, I need to get it right" - this also shows other students that it is not okay to make fun of names.I also make sure to apologise every time I get it wrong.
I wish I have had a teacher like this, my name is Gabriela and I go by Gabi but my whole life no matter how many times I tell this group of boys to call me Gabi they don't care and just call me gabe-riela and laugh and me in front of the whole class.
Like "AHAHAH SHE CALLED HER MY-AH INSTEAD OF ME-AH EVEN THOUGH HER PARENTS DECIDED TO SPELL IT FUCKING MIAH AND ANYONE WOULD MAKE THAT MISTAKE, LETS NEVER TELL HER THE CORRECT WAY"
I have a very long name. It's common in my culture to have a shorter version of your name, like you literally never hear the full name until someone gets angry/documents get involved. But when we moved countries teachers at school insisted that they need to use my full name only But like The language they speak doesn't have some letters in my name... So I had to watch them comically butcher my name the whole year haha It even became a meme when we were playing Kahoot and I'd name myself "Not[insert whatever I was called this week]"
@adish1401 Lmaoo that's funny! I absolutely hate saying people's names wrong! Haha I always want to make sure that I try my best to get it correctly! Haha
@@0720__ I wasn't entirely sure if that was their real name or not, as I know some people don't like others knowing their name! It's why I asked if it was okay for me to know, as I didn't want to assume! I do know how to read Hangul, as I'm learning Korean! I do very much appreciate your explanation on how to pronounce it! I recently learned that they don't say the L in Lee. It's so interesting to know what is & isn't said in Korean! I just love learning it! Haha
All kids deserve to be called by their name that they identify with; even if it takes some extra effort. I feel like it’s a basic courtesy to genuinely try your best without making them feel like an inconvenience
Damn 😂 If I was in school now I could have told my teachers, "We all know were this going! You may now refer to me as Sailor Moon!/Usagi/Serena/Serenity" o I can hear the groans now
i agree. it’s really not cool to do this, especially with a name that isn’t difficult to pronounce. it’s a lot easier to ask a child to repeat it slowly rather than follow them to their locker and ask for a personal nickname!
@@memeju1ce I was obsessed with Sailor moon in school, still am just not as bed, and would have done anything to be Sailor moon, and I Identified with her personality, both cry babies, scared of everything, failed at school, clumsy, whiney, always late, sucked at sports, etc. So I would have basically told people to address me as if I was her. I mean my last name can be turned into Bunny and Usagi means Bunny
@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 lol, see now I know that would have been to far, but younger me would have been so dead set. I honestly look back and am so glad none of the dumbass crap I did Is immortalized on the internet for the rest of my life, because damn I did and said some of the stupidest things, that I wish I could go back and kick my own butt.
I appreciate teachers that actually try to and learn and pronounce even if they get it wrong. most teachers or substitutes give up before they try and address me by my last or middle name I HATE IT SM 💀
Most of my teachers at my old school were really sweet and took time to make sure they were saying all of our names correctly! I really appreciate them for that and many other things
Bro my teacher called me automobile person 😭🙏 or he called me short stack the whole year which I didn’t mind since some how my short name can give people plenty of nicknames
There was this kid in my geography/history class last year, Jobcy, we had a substitute one day and when they got to his name (though he was absent) he said “Is there a Job.. Job-guy in here?” I will forever remember that.
ya, not calling a kid by the name they want is a problem for so many reasons. It alienates kids with "foreign" or "odd" names and it's just disrespectful. It's a horrible way to start off a relationship with a person you're presumably about to teach and guide for a whole year. They're not gonna respect you if you can't even be bothered to learn to say their name. And furthermore, kids have so little agency already, and school restricts their agency even more, and that sucks, so at the very least we should be giving kids choices and respecting those choices wherever possible. And letting a kid choose what they want to be called is such a simple way to give them control over their self-expression. I get teachers have way too much on their plates, but ya gotta learn your student's names.
I see that but it could also be embarrassing for the student to have the teacher struggle just on her name especially because she said she was the quiet kid. In middle school if I was that kid and the teacher was botching my name I’d probably die with all of the extra attention and weird looks by my peers
in 6th grade i had a teacher ms sparks but she taught social studies i think. sweetest teacher. we cried together once because i told her something that was deeply bothering me and causing me to struggle in school. she just hugged me. i will never forget her.
Don't speak for all of us. Hate when people try to pronounce my name "properly." When I just gave them easy to pronounce, easy to remember variant of it. Just use it, and we'll be fine. You are not making me any favors by standing there, struggling, and calling unwanted attention to such a small thing. Hella awkward, hate it with a fiery passion.
I had a gifted ELA teacher and I adore her to this day. She made such a lasting impact on me with her kind heart. She understood mental health and that we all struggle with it. She made everyone feel included and loved every single day and I will always cherish the memories made in her classroom.
As a teacher this breaks my heart!! I’ve learned over the years that if I have a child with a difficult to pronounce name, I ALWAYS ask them privately if I am saying it correctly or if they have a nickname that they prefer. They may already be insecure or feeling overwhelmed and then you draw so much attention to them with this kind of thing.
My teacher always called me Beatrice (my names Beatrix, it’s not that much of a difference but it’s still annoying) and once I corrected her and she was like “oh well I’m going to continue to call you Beatrice.” Like wth
Growing up with an middle eastern name in the US, this happens to me constantly, for about 6 years I went by Ellie as my elementary school teacher told my mother that she should have given me a more “white name”, now that I’m in high school, I’ve completely refused to not be addressed by other than my full name just out of spite lol
I remember when one of my teachers called me to their desk and apologized for calling me Sophie cause my name is Sophia. I told her it was fine but she wanted to say sorry just in case names are a sign of respect. Your teacher had no right to do that to you because being called by your preferred name is a respectful and responsible thing to do.
My name's the same, but for a long time they always spelled it sophia instead of sofia. I recently only had a teacher finally call me by my name, so for the last month, she's been calling me Sarah and ive been too scared to correct her.
Same thing happens to me - mine's Kassandra, and only my family called me Kassi. I was forced to go by Kassi at school, and now everyone I know calls me Kassi. So sad..
“kassi” is such a cute nickname. but, “kassandra” is also charming & pretty so, i can sympathize with you because you obviously had your reasons for wanting it to be exclusive to your family saying it etc. tbh i’m probably just bias because my name is short (& basic lmao) enough to where almost no one “needed” to come up with nicknames for me
As a person with a more Asian name and don’t go by any nicknames, even if I say it, they still struggle a lot, so I just give up and let them mispronounce my name lol
It was always frustrating having teachers who never learned to pronounce my name, but also couldn’t do anything about their inability to remember a basic pronunciation because you can’t shorten my name to anything else. 😅
My name was apparently hard to pronounce for a number of teachers. It's written "Madeleine" and said "mad-eh-lane", but everyone pronounced it as "mad-eh-line". I absolutely hated that, but whenever I tried to correct them, they acted like I was just being a class clown or simply being disruptive for the sake of it. I got detentions for "talking back", despite being a stellar student in basically every other regard. One teacher even claimed that I had been lying and changing the pronunciation every single time (not true). The upper faculty questioned other people in my class about whether I was changing the pronunciation every time and of course every single person said I hadn't.
As a teacher, I always try and pronounce the names of my kids properly. It's part of their identity and as long as they don't tell me a nickname I won't ask them for one just to make life easier for me
I actually get a thrill out of this lmao Whenever I hear someone trying to read my name I just enjoy their struggle in silence instead of stepping in and/or correcting them
I have a name my teachers often butcher. They pronounce my name wrong constantly that I don’t even correct them anymore. They were only my teacher and I didn’t really like them so I thought it was only fitting for them to pronounce my name that way. They didn’t care about me, they’re not close to me, and don’t even have the decency to say my name right after telling them how it’s pronounced multiple times. They would even go as far as to tell me that’s not how it should be pronounced because of how its spelt. After awhile, I became fine with them mispronouncing my name because I ended up realizing, they’re too shitty to deserve to say my name.😂 I was a weird kid. My classmates called me by my nickname and my teachers continued to mispronounce my name until I left that school. I think teachers and just people in general should have the common decency to pronounce someone’s name correctly or at least try to and continue to try to. If you know someone who’s too shitty to even try- and you can’t get them to pronounce it right because they don’t have any respect towards you, I’m sorry you have to endure that. On the bright side, you get to know a little bit about their character, and at least you know early on they’re pretty shitty. ^^;
ok but how do you TELL SOMEONE that THEIR NAME should be pronounced differently, and that THEY'RE PRONOUNCING IT WRONG. they CAN'T pronounce it wrong, they OWN THEIR NAME. its THEIRS. it makes me wonder how desperate schools are for people who will teach kids that they don't see that the teacher lacks a basic respect for their students
As a high school teacher, I have seen so many students who automatically go to a nickname when i struggle to pronounce their name at first. I always clarify that they dont have to go by a nickname unless they want, that I WILL learn how to pronounce it correctly and if I EVER mess it up that they should correct me and I wont get mad. I tell students that I respect them enough to learn their name.
It's so frustrating for me because I had somebody continuously mispronounce my name--Even when I gave her a shortened version which I was uncomfortable with--EVEN WHEN I SAID IT TO HER AND SHE SAID IT BACK SHE SAID IT WRONG. She constantly misspelled it too. She told me I had to be patient with her--I would have been if she hadn't said it in such a patronizing way to me over and over again. She was nice to everyone but me, and it was sickening to hear people always talk about how nice she was when she never ever was like that to me.
Opposite story but one of my friends strictly went by his nickname. Like parents, friends, family only called him his nickname. And one year, we had a sub try to send him to the principals office because he "lied" about his nickname!!! We all came to his defense!
A long term sub started calling me a nickname by accident and didn't realize until the end of the year because I wasn't sure how to tell her that it wasn't my name and at the end of the year she was like "OH NO wait I called you the wrong name this whole semesteR???" I'm slowly learning to correct people 'cause it's MY NAME not theirs lol
Kid in my class had a difficult name, including me, but that didn’t stop my teacher from not learning it, she got mine and this other kids name pronunciation right after around 3 weeks, although our names were hard, my teacher was dedicated to get the names right.
Okay I was blessed with an easy to pronounce name, but I have vivid memories of kids in my classes having difficult to pronounce names, and the teacher just….asked them how to pronounce it until they memorized it. I thought that was what all teachers did, so omfg this is a horrifying idea
For real tho this needs to be more popular of a video I swear this is so true. For me, I always hated my birth given name because I would be taunted about it in every part of my life and I never could write it to look pretty and so I wanted to go by my middle name and no one respected that and I was basically triggered every time someone wanted my attention by saying my name most of my childhood till finally I moved schools and told no one my real name I only gave them rhi to call me and after I got tired of being compared to rye bread or rere girl, I decided to go by rhiley and it’s been 8 years everyone calls me that now unless they’re a pos and they’re mad at me (can’t win them all) it was honestly so hard to just be called what I wanted to be called and when my birth name would get out from someone I trusted not to tell people, I felt the way you described everyone calling you Gina , like that was not a name I was tryna have everyone call me and it became like some secret for years
6th grade me would have asked how she's able to teach if her brain is compromised enough to struggle to remember a name. 6th grade me was definitely a problem child tho.
I have a science teacher who does this too. There’s some cases where I understand calling a kid by a nickname, like if they go by a nickname regularly or if they say you can but don’t just assume it’s fine. I go by Cali at home, but at school I go by my full name, Calista. Recently though, some teachers started calling me Cali and it honestly makes me kinda uncomfortable
I'm Italian and in middle school I used to go on school trips to Wales. One of my classmates' name was Dalila, which is apparently difficult to pronounce for English speakers, but the lady who taught us (was like 70+) always tried to say it, even if it sounded horrible. I still remember her neverending kindness❤❤
I used to have over 500 students I saw over a two week rotation. I wrote down the pronunciation of every kids name. Yes it was more effort but the pay off was worth it. Those kids loved the respect and connection we had as did I. No excuse for this teacher.
Currently in college to be a teacher but that's already a rule I've set for myself when I do become a teacher. Some people strictly go by nicknames (my friend Elizabeth only went by Liz, a boy named Dominick pretty much just went by Domo), and others do not want nicknames at all (a boy named Wilson did not like being called Will). Also, I want to make sure I'm pronouncing names right (my roommate's name is Regan, pronounced like REE-gan, but teachers always say it like REH-gan, and she's so shy that she doesn't correct them), so I want future students to let me know if I'm saying it wrong. Basically, call people the name they want to be called (as long as it's appropriate, since we're talking about teenagers 😂)
girl i feel you, crazy thing is sometimes the names don’t be hard to pronounce. it’s spelled how its pronounced so at that point they don’t know how to read or are being dense
for me it’s the opposite, my name is kinda hard to pronounce and most people can’t say it correctly and one of my teachers was like “ I wanna get your name correct” and she kept on saying it wrong and I asked her if she could say it incorrectly a different way but she said no 😭😭
As I've gotten older I've moved away from letting people outside my family call me a nickname. I know that makes me sound pretentious. However, I've come to realize that a nickname without a meaning is just demeaning. What I mean by that is that if your nickname does not mean something to you or someone close to you (even if it means the smallest, silliest thing) then it is not a nickname. It is a name people use to refer to you because they can't be bothered. Nicknames should be special and shared with those close to you. They should make you smile when you hear them call you by that nickname. My whole life people have shortened my name for their own convenience. Kids and teachers shortened my name and I just went along with it because I thought my name was too long. But I know my name is beautiful, I have been told so my whole life. So I'm standing up for myself and saying I want to be called by my actual name, not a shortcut. And I believe others should too.
Honestly, i dont even think kids would mind if asked how to say their name a few times. It shows you care enough to get it right. In college i saw lots of teachers do this right. They always ask in a way similar to "am I getting this right?/I want to make sure this is right" or will start the first handful or roll calls/handing back graded tests with "if im getting your name wrong correct me"
My geography teacher has a speech impediment and can’t say my name properly, so I offered him a nickname and he still said “but that isn’t your name, so I’ll keep trying” he’s so nice
my name is very short and not too hard to pronounce....BUT TEACHERS CANT PRONOUNCE IT. the only people who cant pronounce it are teachers....MY NAME IS SANA...... SANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
How do you even pronounce that wrong? I’m trying to think but my mind is completely blank. I guess some people just out here adding random extra letters to people’s names.
I had a French teacher that couldn’t pronounce different names and when she got to mine in the register she just skipped me because she couldn’t say my name 💀
I do agree you should respect what kids and really what just anybody tells you to call them. Now I could be wrong about this, but when you say, "Just ask them how to say it once, and you'll know" I feel like you're asking people to remember the first time which I don't agree with but if your not I get that too and sorry for the misunderstanding Love your videos, and I was just sharing an opinion and seeing if I was misunderstanding something ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My name is Aleana pronounced Ah-lay-na. Only a handful of teachers ever got it right and the ones that didn't always had something to say. I still remember one in elementary school who told me my parents don't understand how English works since that's not how it's pronounced
Especially if you aren’t comfortable with a nickname especially if you explained the reason the teacher should just practice saying it and request you to correct her during class.
Whenever I have a substitute I already know they are going to struggle. One time my new teacher called me 'Anna' when it dosent even relate with my name and I was way to shy to say something.
There are some names that are truly outside of someone’s cultural familiarity that will take time and practice to get right. However, you don’t mess with someone’s name ❤
I had the same problem with a substitute teacher she asked if she could call me gaby (my name is Gabrielle) and I always hated when people give me nicknames and I said no and she just looked at me like I just said something horrible
I’m an assistant coach and my teacher who I work for I do martial arts and I’m teaching there says if you tell a kid to change their name or anything negative about their name even calling them the wrong way it makes them loose a sense of self
A name is really important to one's identity. I bet it felt like her saying "you're to difficult to respect, so lower the bar". I get that usually when people ask for a nickname, they don't mean it that way, but it doesn't change how it feels.
As someone named Kerynsa, I always knew it was my name when teachers hesitated. Then, a binch of kids in my school started doing the whole "I identify as [insert thing]" and I was getting tired of it, so I gave up and said "fuck it, I identify as a letter now, call me K." That made things easier for my teachers. Edit: Also, a kid who identified as a FAIRY got mad at me for disrespecting those with body dysmorphia and blah blah blah. I looked at her and said, "I don't believe in fairies." Then she got mad, and I interrupted her saying, "Aw damn, guess you're not a fairy since you didn't die." (It's a Tinkerbell reference in Peter Pan movie)
First of all, very savage of you and I love it. Second of all, taking a crack at your name, is it pronounced Keh-rin-sah with emphasis on the second syllable?
My first name is Eternity all the way through elementary school all my teachers refused to use it saying it was too long for a elementary school kid to remember.
When ever I’ve had a substitute or a new teacher they’ve usually said sommet along the lines of “correct me if I say your name wrong” when doing the register and my friend has had to correct teachers for saying her name wrong but once she’s told them they remember it usually
My name is Genevieve, I get it! Most people ask me if I have a nickname and I’m like “no, sorry, my mom calls me Gigi but she is the only one I allow” and all the substitutes and new teachers call me gwenevieve or Geneva and I’m like “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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most teachers i've had usually say "i'm going to try my best, if i say it wrong, ALWAYS correct me. i will keep trying until i get it right." which i find super kind bc even if a kids name is hard to pronounce they don't disregard the fact that it's special
In 1st and 2nd grade, my teachers kept asking if I had a nickname I'd prefer to go by
@@anname7373 i'm sorry 😞
@@anname7373what is your name
My theater teacher has the wrong name bell and if she says your name wrong, you run over and you ring the bell
I have anxiety so I just let my art teacher pronounce it wrong 😅😂
As a teacher, remembering everyone’s name and pronunciation takes time. But it worth it in the end because it shows respect.
Also, if you work in a public school; you have hundreds of kids every year so..
I met a teacher I had two years ago in the hallway a few days ago and she remembered my name...and I even have grown a lot taller in that time, so I was really surprised. I really hope I'll have her again in one of the next school years.
In my Florida district it’s now illegal to call the kid anything else but their legal name, no nicknames. Strictly forbidden. (Unless the student and parent sign a paper online. I thinkkk we all know what they’re trying to do lol)
@@Castodre and? You see them more than their parents do for the year. We have time to learn their name.
@@zoinks819 im stating it. What i'm stating is the cons. I'm sorry if the tone sounded rude and intense.
she’s a science teacher….if she can pronounce mitochondria then she can pronounce Giovanna wtf
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There was a kid in my class and his name was dartangan "dar tan yon" and my teacher was struggling to say it and then he told her how to say it and he also told her to call him Tanner since it's easier but my teacher said" I want to call you dartangan. That is a gnarly name man I love that." That teacher was AMAZING.
How do I have 2,000 likes?!?!?
I also knew a dartangan. he went by D. I met him at a party and even after making him repeat his name 3 times, I still couldn't hear what he said. dartangan, Lance, and brael, (edit: i forgot about kole lol) are the reasons why my mom says I like guys with weird names, even though a. I didn't even like dartangan that much, and b. I didn't like lance at all, he just became obsessed with me.
Dude's right, he's named after a musketeer and that's pretty fucking cool
My boss makes an effort to call me my full (11 letter long) first name. I appreciate it a lot. I don't mind being called my nickname, but I also usually tell people that nickname right away.
It's actually spelled Dartagnan assuming he was named after the 4th Musketeer, my family named our dog Dartagnan because of that book lol
@@tigolbitti3s Thanks for correcting
I love the "It's hard, so I won't remember" Somehow it's easier to remember 15 different Ashleys in that year, but the one and only Oleksiy you'll probably ever encounter is too much.
It’s easier to remember 20 basic names and slowly match faces and harder to match the name you might not hear everyday with a kid who’s quiet…esp when teachers can meet around over 200 kids on the first day of school
How do you say oleksiy photonicly? 😅
Tell me you never have done any teaching without telling me you have never done any teaching.
Honestly if I was the teacher.. yea it would be hard for me I’m sorry 😭 it’s easier to remember People with the same names because of their last names personally, but I literally don’t know how to pronounce thst
@@beanslife1869exactly as its written?
Giovanna is not a difficult name at all and that teacher was self centered and frankly weird to follow you to your locker about that. Creepy
I kinda disagree bcs I stutter so when exampl it a scenteche like 'with him' but I sound it like 'with them' bcs when I say 'with' my accent comes out and it now says 'wid' so maybe I'm think the teacher has hard time pronounce and memorising
Yeah it's really not difficult for most people to say but I gotta disagree with you calling it weird and creepy for a teacher to talk to their student at their locker. Like- ???. It's not like she followed her outside, she just went to their locker to talk to the student instead of in front of the class.
@@robloxjordithe world won’t be suited for everyone. If you have a debilitating stutter, you can’t be a teacher. Sorry about that but it’s the truth. Teachers need to be able to not only teach the class, but respect their students and their names.
I agree but to a point many my relatives arent able to pronounce my name and its a pretty simple name. Their first language is korean or spanish so they arent used to english as their first language.
I mean but you have to take into consideration she's in middle school my school has 8 class periods that's at least 20 students per class which makes it 160 students names the teacher has to remember and it's not really creepy to follow a student to their locker the teacher probably just didn't want to disrupt class tbh
My name is french, so when i was in primary school people always forget my name. Until a french teacher came i was so excited.
That teacher doesn’t understand that one of the responsibilities of a teacher is to REMEMBER names
I hate to be this person but this is more like that i could ever imagine But TYSM!!!
Actually it depends if they are foreign exchanged then they have a right
Not really im kinda with the teacher bc she has so many other kids and she cant remember that long of a name so 🤷🏾♀️
@@bootylicker_Giovanna is the same length as Samantha. So nope its not that long a name nor is it hard the only excuse a teacher would have here is if the teacher has a speech impediment and cannot say the name.
@@ttijana Samantha is common name. Giovanna is not.
@@psychopathinthemaking still doesn't make it hard. Deborah isn't as common as Samantha but teachers still say it with out issue. Like just ask the student how their name is said and learn it if you have so little respect for your students that you won't call them their names you shouldn't be a teacher. Giovanna isn't even a very uncommon name. Its easy to say cause it follows standard English pronunciations, its not like my name, Tatijana which is Russian and is said tah tee yah nah, the j makes a y sound. All my teachers learned it and could say it the only ppl I've ever had not learn how to say it are people who thought of me as a number like some bosses or people who's mouths literally don't work right to form those sound. This is a simple matter of respect if a person refuses to learn how to say someone's name when they have the ability to they are being disrespectful.
I worked a summer program at an elementary school this past summer and there was a girl with a somewhat tricky name to pronounce. She told us how it was pronounce and NOBODY said anything else. Everybody called her by how she said it was pronounced and after hearing this, I appreciate that now. It seems like we all collectively agreed to try our best to commit the name to memory and we did!
Even my grandma cants pronounce my name correctly but my classmates and teachers do
Every teacher always struggles, when they call roll and start to hesitate I know it's me
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They call me eddy..
Me to, and I feel like my name is really simple to figure out it's literally Raina with a J instead of R yet every single teacher calls me daina, Raina, Gianna, Gina, Jana, ect
My name is Cerys (welsh name pronounced keris) I live in Ireland.
I’ve learnt that when they hesitate it’s me
Oh I also learnt who’s name is ahead of me in every class which it’s the same kid because the teachers hate us and put us in the same class for literally everything (except the 2 classes we pick ourself) but since it goes in alphabetical order I’m next to this kid in every single class.
(The only teacher who can get my name right is my art teacher because she actually cares for her students)
My name is Emira and I can relate to this soooooo much
As a teacher, nicknames are fine if they come about naturally, the students likes them, etc., but, as a general rule, we should try to learn to pronounce students’ names! Sure, it may take a little while to get the hang of it, but we should at least make a conscious effort!❤️
That’s is very sweet of you!
Never had a problem calling kids their names, but I did struggle when they started changing their names halfway through the year. I tried to keep up.
As a teacher, I tell students to correct me whenever I get it wrong...until I get it right! Some kids are like "it's ok just say it however" but my response is "no, your name is important, I need to get it right" - this also shows other students that it is not okay to make fun of names.I also make sure to apologise every time I get it wrong.
that sounds like my math teacher
I wish I have had a teacher like this, my name is Gabriela and I go by Gabi but my whole life no matter how many times I tell this group of boys to call me Gabi they don't care and just call me gabe-riela and laugh and me in front of the whole class.
I go by my nickname so much that it's actually listed as my name for attendance and such. Nobody knows my full name 😂
What shits me is when I have a new class, get the name wrong, and all the kids mock the incorrect pronunciation but NOBODY TELLS ME THE RIGHT ONE.
Like "AHAHAH SHE CALLED HER MY-AH INSTEAD OF ME-AH EVEN THOUGH HER PARENTS DECIDED TO SPELL IT FUCKING MIAH AND ANYONE WOULD MAKE THAT MISTAKE, LETS NEVER TELL HER THE CORRECT WAY"
my name isn't long but its DEFINITELY difficult to figure out how to pronounce just like most Asian names, its hilarious watching people try
If I may ask, what is your name? I wanna see if I'm able to pronounce it correctly! Of course, only if you're comfortable with that! :))
I have a very long name. It's common in my culture to have a shorter version of your name, like you literally never hear the full name until someone gets angry/documents get involved. But when we moved countries teachers at school insisted that they need to use my full name only
But like
The language they speak doesn't have some letters in my name...
So I had to watch them comically butcher my name the whole year haha
It even became a meme when we were playing Kahoot and I'd name myself "Not[insert whatever I was called this week]"
@adish1401 Lmaoo that's funny! I absolutely hate saying people's names wrong! Haha I always want to make sure that I try my best to get it correctly! Haha
@@0720__ I wasn't entirely sure if that was their real name or not, as I know some people don't like others knowing their name! It's why I asked if it was okay for me to know, as I didn't want to assume! I do know how to read Hangul, as I'm learning Korean! I do very much appreciate your explanation on how to pronounce it! I recently learned that they don't say the L in Lee. It's so interesting to know what is & isn't said in Korean! I just love learning it! Haha
My name is British🤦♀️ The teacher on the first day is like sEr-In and I’m just like😅
All kids deserve to be called by their name that they identify with; even if it takes some extra effort. I feel like it’s a basic courtesy to genuinely try your best without making them feel like an inconvenience
Damn 😂 If I was in school now I could have told my teachers, "We all know were this going! You may now refer to me as Sailor Moon!/Usagi/Serena/Serenity" o I can hear the groans now
i agree. it’s really not cool to do this, especially with a name that isn’t difficult to pronounce. it’s a lot easier to ask a child to repeat it slowly rather than follow them to their locker and ask for a personal nickname!
@@memeju1ce I was obsessed with Sailor moon in school, still am just not as bed, and would have done anything to be Sailor moon, and I Identified with her personality, both cry babies, scared of everything, failed at school, clumsy, whiney, always late, sucked at sports, etc. So I would have basically told people to address me as if I was her. I mean my last name can be turned into Bunny and Usagi means Bunny
@@SanchiraVanitylol maybe not THAT far😂
@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 lol, see now I know that would have been to far, but younger me would have been so dead set. I honestly look back and am so glad none of the dumbass crap I did Is immortalized on the internet for the rest of my life, because damn I did and said some of the stupidest things, that I wish I could go back and kick my own butt.
I prefer teacher mispronouncing my name rather than calling me something else
And if it takes you a bit, theres no shame in asking again. One year my teacher got my name right ONCE before i changed it.
I appreciate teachers that actually try to and learn and pronounce even if they get it wrong. most teachers or substitutes give up before they try and address me by my last or middle name I HATE IT SM 💀
Most of my teachers at my old school were really sweet and took time to make sure they were saying all of our names correctly! I really appreciate them for that and many other things
For real
I had a sub once, and she remembered everyone's names including mine. And she knew by only saying them once on the attendance😭😭
Bro my teacher called me automobile person 😭🙏 or he called me short stack the whole year which I didn’t mind since some how my short name can give people plenty of nicknames
There was this kid in my geography/history class last year, Jobcy, we had a substitute one day and when they got to his name (though he was absent) he said “Is there a Job.. Job-guy in here?” I will forever remember that.
this has nothing to do with your comment but i love ur pfp
Lol😂
I always love science teachers and history teachers there always chill
ya, not calling a kid by the name they want is a problem for so many reasons. It alienates kids with "foreign" or "odd" names and it's just disrespectful. It's a horrible way to start off a relationship with a person you're presumably about to teach and guide for a whole year. They're not gonna respect you if you can't even be bothered to learn to say their name. And furthermore, kids have so little agency already, and school restricts their agency even more, and that sucks, so at the very least we should be giving kids choices and respecting those choices wherever possible. And letting a kid choose what they want to be called is such a simple way to give them control over their self-expression.
I get teachers have way too much on their plates, but ya gotta learn your student's names.
I see that but it could also be embarrassing for the student to have the teacher struggle just on her name especially because she said she was the quiet kid. In middle school if I was that kid and the teacher was botching my name I’d probably die with all of the extra attention and weird looks by my peers
And if you cant do that, maybe being a teacher isn't a great idea anyways.
in 6th grade i had a teacher ms sparks but she taught social studies i think. sweetest teacher. we cried together once because i told her something that was deeply bothering me and causing me to struggle in school. she just hugged me. i will never forget her.
Wow, that’s such a beautiful story. It’s great how some teachers put extra effort to make a larger impact on a student’s life.
As someone with an impossibly hard name to pronounce, this makes me very happy and I can confirm this is what we want.
Whats ur name
Name reveal?
nnnamee?
Guys just remember they don’t have to reveal if they don’t want to! It doesn’t really matter whether or not we know their name :)
Don't speak for all of us. Hate when people try to pronounce my name "properly." When I just gave them easy to pronounce, easy to remember variant of it. Just use it, and we'll be fine. You are not making me any favors by standing there, struggling, and calling unwanted attention to such a small thing. Hella awkward, hate it with a fiery passion.
I had a gifted ELA teacher and I adore her to this day. She made such a lasting impact on me with her kind heart. She understood mental health and that we all struggle with it. She made everyone feel included and loved every single day and I will always cherish the memories made in her classroom.
As a teacher this breaks my heart!! I’ve learned over the years that if I have a child with a difficult to pronounce name, I ALWAYS ask them privately if I am saying it correctly or if they have a nickname that they prefer. They may already be insecure or feeling overwhelmed and then you draw so much attention to them with this kind of thing.
To me it's just unacceptable to be given someone's name and go, "Nah, too much effort. I'll call you something else."
My teacher always called me Beatrice (my names Beatrix, it’s not that much of a difference but it’s still annoying) and once I corrected her and she was like “oh well I’m going to continue to call you Beatrice.” Like wth
@@Ur_local_therian-_-call her by the wrong last name
@@user-wh5fj6pj6m Yh lol
they have hundreds of students
@@mwuahahahahaa and?
My third grade teacher let us pick a candy every time she said our name wrong, spelled it wrong, called us somebody else’s name, etc.
Dang I wish my 3rd grade teach was so nice😭😭😭💀💀
Bro I would be getting buckets of candy every month if that was my teacher
it's human to mess up sometimes though.. as long as it wasn't done intentionally
I wish my teachers always call me my ex bsf name
Me: 🍬🍫🍭🍫🍬🍬🍫🍭
Bro my name isn't even that hard 😭
On the first day my teacher asked everyone if they wanted a nickname after she said their names
Growing up with an middle eastern name in the US, this happens to me constantly, for about 6 years I went by Ellie as my elementary school teacher told my mother that she should have given me a more “white name”, now that I’m in high school, I’ve completely refused to not be addressed by other than my full name just out of spite lol
love it
as you should lol
Yes fully support you
bruh, what a teacher, a disrespectful one at that
I was given a white name too, it's so embarrassing whenever I think of it
Absolutely. I’m all of my education classes we were told this. Names are very important so they should be honored!!!
I remember when one of my teachers called me to their desk and apologized for calling me Sophie cause my name is Sophia. I told her it was fine but she wanted to say sorry just in case names are a sign of respect. Your teacher had no right to do that to you because being called by your preferred name is a respectful and responsible thing to do.
Awwww 😭💙💙💙💙
My name's the same, but for a long time they always spelled it sophia instead of sofia. I recently only had a teacher finally call me by my name, so for the last month, she's been calling me Sarah and ive been too scared to correct her.
As someone with a name that every teacher struggles to pronounce I feel u 😅😅
Same thing happens to me - mine's Kassandra, and only my family called me Kassi. I was forced to go by Kassi at school, and now everyone I know calls me Kassi. So sad..
Bro my name is also kassandra twins ❤
@@gloomy-waterflower926 cool! I've never met another person in my life with the same name !
Kassandra is actually pretty easy they just lazy.
Also your name is really pretty.
@@Blanch590 thank you ♡ (and they usually mispronounced it in the craziest ways!!!)
“kassi” is such a cute nickname. but, “kassandra” is also charming & pretty so, i can sympathize with you because you obviously had your reasons for wanting it to be exclusive to your family saying it etc.
tbh i’m probably just bias because my name is short (& basic lmao) enough to where almost no one “needed” to come up with nicknames for me
As a person with a more Asian name and don’t go by any nicknames, even if I say it, they still struggle a lot, so I just give up and let them mispronounce my name lol
same here 😭 don't think a teacher has every pronounced my name remotely right it's like they're actively trying to butcher it up lmfaooo
yet somehow theyre able to pronounce something like mckennzaye emileigh smith
It was always frustrating having teachers who never learned to pronounce my name, but also couldn’t do anything about their inability to remember a basic pronunciation because you can’t shorten my name to anything else. 😅
I had a science teacher named Mrs sparks in 5th grade I loved her
My name was apparently hard to pronounce for a number of teachers. It's written "Madeleine" and said "mad-eh-lane", but everyone pronounced it as "mad-eh-line". I absolutely hated that, but whenever I tried to correct them, they acted like I was just being a class clown or simply being disruptive for the sake of it.
I got detentions for "talking back", despite being a stellar student in basically every other regard. One teacher even claimed that I had been lying and changing the pronunciation every single time (not true). The upper faculty questioned other people in my class about whether I was changing the pronunciation every time and of course every single person said I hadn't.
Ms. Sparks watching this: 👁️👄👁️
As a teacher, I always try and pronounce the names of my kids properly. It's part of their identity and as long as they don't tell me a nickname I won't ask them for one just to make life easier for me
I actually get a thrill out of this lmao
Whenever I hear someone trying to read my name I just enjoy their struggle in silence instead of stepping in and/or correcting them
I have a name my teachers often butcher. They pronounce my name wrong constantly that I don’t even correct them anymore. They were only my teacher and I didn’t really like them so I thought it was only fitting for them to pronounce my name that way. They didn’t care about me, they’re not close to me, and don’t even have the decency to say my name right after telling them how it’s pronounced multiple times. They would even go as far as to tell me that’s not how it should be pronounced because of how its spelt. After awhile, I became fine with them mispronouncing my name because I ended up realizing, they’re too shitty to deserve to say my name.😂 I was a weird kid. My classmates called me by my nickname and my teachers continued to mispronounce my name until I left that school.
I think teachers and just people in general should have the common decency to pronounce someone’s name correctly or at least try to and continue to try to. If you know someone who’s too shitty to even try- and you can’t get them to pronounce it right because they don’t have any respect towards you, I’m sorry you have to endure that. On the bright side, you get to know a little bit about their character, and at least you know early on they’re pretty shitty. ^^;
ok but how do you TELL SOMEONE that THEIR NAME should be pronounced differently, and that THEY'RE PRONOUNCING IT WRONG. they CAN'T pronounce it wrong, they OWN THEIR NAME. its THEIRS. it makes me wonder how desperate schools are for people who will teach kids that they don't see that the teacher lacks a basic respect for their students
I’ve seen people struggle with both my first name and surname, but it’s mostly my surname people are confused about cause it’s from Nigeria😅
omg yes same!
Same
As a high school teacher, I have seen so many students who automatically go to a nickname when i struggle to pronounce their name at first. I always clarify that they dont have to go by a nickname unless they want, that I WILL learn how to pronounce it correctly and if I EVER mess it up that they should correct me and I wont get mad. I tell students that I respect them enough to learn their name.
Teachers would sometimes have a difficult time spelling my last name, but it's literally spelled exactly how it sounds.
how is ashton hard to say😭
@@Julia_Luvs LAST name.
It's so frustrating for me because I had somebody continuously mispronounce my name--Even when I gave her a shortened version which I was uncomfortable with--EVEN WHEN I SAID IT TO HER AND SHE SAID IT BACK SHE SAID IT WRONG. She constantly misspelled it too. She told me I had to be patient with her--I would have been if she hadn't said it in such a patronizing way to me over and over again. She was nice to everyone but me, and it was sickening to hear people always talk about how nice she was when she never ever was like that to me.
Opposite story but one of my friends strictly went by his nickname. Like parents, friends, family only called him his nickname. And one year, we had a sub try to send him to the principals office because he "lied" about his nickname!!! We all came to his defense!
A long term sub started calling me a nickname by accident and didn't realize until the end of the year because I wasn't sure how to tell her that it wasn't my name and at the end of the year she was like "OH NO wait I called you the wrong name this whole semesteR???"
I'm slowly learning to correct people 'cause it's MY NAME not theirs lol
Every first day of school I like playing the game of “let’s see how many teachers can pronounce my name correctly on the first try”
Kid in my class had a difficult name, including me, but that didn’t stop my teacher from not learning it, she got mine and this other kids name pronunciation right after around 3 weeks, although our names were hard, my teacher was dedicated to get the names right.
Okay I was blessed with an easy to pronounce name, but I have vivid memories of kids in my classes having difficult to pronounce names, and the teacher just….asked them how to pronounce it until they memorized it. I thought that was what all teachers did, so omfg this is a horrifying idea
For real tho this needs to be more popular of a video I swear this is so true. For me, I always hated my birth given name because I would be taunted about it in every part of my life and I never could write it to look pretty and so I wanted to go by my middle name and no one respected that and I was basically triggered every time someone wanted my attention by saying my name most of my childhood till finally I moved schools and told no one my real name I only gave them rhi to call me and after I got tired of being compared to rye bread or rere girl, I decided to go by rhiley and it’s been 8 years everyone calls me that now unless they’re a pos and they’re mad at me (can’t win them all) it was honestly so hard to just be called what I wanted to be called and when my birth name would get out from someone I trusted not to tell people, I felt the way you described everyone calling you Gina , like that was not a name I was tryna have everyone call me and it became like some secret for years
So many teachers say my name wrong i just dont correct them anymore😭
Every time a teacher stops on the attendance sheet, I know it's me
6th grade me would have asked how she's able to teach if her brain is compromised enough to struggle to remember a name. 6th grade me was definitely a problem child tho.
one of best friends has a fairly difficult name to pronounce and one of our teachers just gave her a nickname she didn’t even ask
I have a science teacher who does this too. There’s some cases where I understand calling a kid by a nickname, like if they go by a nickname regularly or if they say you can but don’t just assume it’s fine. I go by Cali at home, but at school I go by my full name, Calista. Recently though, some teachers started calling me Cali and it honestly makes me kinda uncomfortable
I'm Italian and in middle school I used to go on school trips to Wales. One of my classmates' name was Dalila, which is apparently difficult to pronounce for English speakers, but the lady who taught us (was like 70+) always tried to say it, even if it sounded horrible. I still remember her neverending kindness❤❤
Gio was just sitting right there.
omg yes
I used to have over 500 students I saw over a two week rotation. I wrote down the pronunciation of every kids name. Yes it was more effort but the pay off was worth it. Those kids loved the respect and connection we had as did I.
No excuse for this teacher.
For me, it’s when the teacher calls roll call on the first day and they are shocked that I’m a girl.
Currently in college to be a teacher but that's already a rule I've set for myself when I do become a teacher. Some people strictly go by nicknames (my friend Elizabeth only went by Liz, a boy named Dominick pretty much just went by Domo), and others do not want nicknames at all (a boy named Wilson did not like being called Will). Also, I want to make sure I'm pronouncing names right (my roommate's name is Regan, pronounced like REE-gan, but teachers always say it like REH-gan, and she's so shy that she doesn't correct them), so I want future students to let me know if I'm saying it wrong. Basically, call people the name they want to be called (as long as it's appropriate, since we're talking about teenagers 😂)
girl i feel you, crazy thing is sometimes the names don’t be hard to pronounce. it’s spelled how its pronounced so at that point they don’t know how to read or are being dense
That's ridiculous. What was that teacher thinking?
I can’t believe people are frustrated about this 😭
@@Inesines44456 Exactly teachers have so many names to remember that nicknames make it easier
for me it’s the opposite, my name is kinda hard to pronounce and most people can’t say it correctly and one of my teachers was like “ I wanna get your name correct” and she kept on saying it wrong and I asked her if she could say it incorrectly a different way but she said no 😭😭
As I've gotten older I've moved away from letting people outside my family call me a nickname. I know that makes me sound pretentious. However, I've come to realize that a nickname without a meaning is just demeaning. What I mean by that is that if your nickname does not mean something to you or someone close to you (even if it means the smallest, silliest thing) then it is not a nickname. It is a name people use to refer to you because they can't be bothered. Nicknames should be special and shared with those close to you. They should make you smile when you hear them call you by that nickname.
My whole life people have shortened my name for their own convenience. Kids and teachers shortened my name and I just went along with it because I thought my name was too long. But I know my name is beautiful, I have been told so my whole life. So I'm standing up for myself and saying I want to be called by my actual name, not a shortcut. And I believe others should too.
May I ask your name?
Honestly, i dont even think kids would mind if asked how to say their name a few times. It shows you care enough to get it right.
In college i saw lots of teachers do this right. They always ask in a way similar to "am I getting this right?/I want to make sure this is right" or will start the first handful or roll calls/handing back graded tests with "if im getting your name wrong correct me"
It’s also ok to ask a few times and keep trying. Eventually you will get it at least close enough.
My geography teacher has a speech impediment and can’t say my name properly, so I offered him a nickname and he still said “but that isn’t your name, so I’ll keep trying” he’s so nice
my name is very short and not too hard to pronounce....BUT TEACHERS CANT PRONOUNCE IT. the only people who cant pronounce it are teachers....MY NAME IS SANA...... SANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
How do you even pronounce that wrong? I’m trying to think but my mind is completely blank. I guess some people just out here adding random extra letters to people’s names.
@@dismal_mystery BROO FRRRR SOME CALL ME SANAI
literally so important! i spent my childhood being told "why does it matter how its supposed to be said" like my names not even that hARD!?
I had a French teacher that couldn’t pronounce different names and when she got to mine in the register she just skipped me because she couldn’t say my name 💀
I do agree you should respect what kids and really what just anybody tells you to call them. Now I could be wrong about this, but when you say, "Just ask them how to say it once, and you'll know" I feel like you're asking people to remember the first time which I don't agree with but if your not I get that too and sorry for the misunderstanding
Love your videos, and I was just sharing an opinion and seeing if I was misunderstanding something ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My name is Aleana pronounced Ah-lay-na. Only a handful of teachers ever got it right and the ones that didn't always had something to say. I still remember one in elementary school who told me my parents don't understand how English works since that's not how it's pronounced
The audacity 😡 I hope your put that direspectful teacher in their place.
Especially if you aren’t comfortable with a nickname especially if you explained the reason the teacher should just practice saying it and request you to correct her during class.
As a kid she looked so cute. Also yeah Giovanna isn’t even that hard to pronounce.
Whenever I have a substitute I already know they are going to struggle. One time my new teacher called me 'Anna' when it dosent even relate with my name and I was way to shy to say something.
Most of my teachers are just out here nicknaming everyone 😂😂
There are some names that are truly outside of someone’s cultural familiarity that will take time and practice to get right. However, you don’t mess with someone’s name ❤
It’s a Jojo refere-
I was looking for this bro 😭💀
I KNEW SOMEONE WILL GET IT LMAO
Bro i was scrolling for ages looking for someone who thought what I was thinking
Some teachers have a hard time pronouncing kids names like I had a couple teachers had a hard time saying the kids names
I had the same problem with a substitute teacher she asked if she could call me gaby (my name is Gabrielle) and I always hated when people give me nicknames and I said no and she just looked at me like I just said something horrible
This year, I approached all my teachers after class and wrote my name out phonetically on the attendance sheet for them.
So far, it worked out nice!
Everyone would always call me Maya when my name is Mia so they would just call me my worst nickname ever…Mimi 😭
I’m an assistant coach and my teacher who I work for I do martial arts and I’m teaching there says if you tell a kid to change their name or anything negative about their name even calling them the wrong way it makes them loose a sense of self
I had a teacher in 2nd grade who her name was Mrs. Sparks, she was awesome
Same here!
@@kavlara WOAH 😱😱😱😱😱
@@0Knockout_Lia0 California ?
@@kavlara no lol 😅
@@0Knockout_Lia0 hahaha it was worth asking
A name is really important to one's identity. I bet it felt like her saying "you're to difficult to respect, so lower the bar". I get that usually when people ask for a nickname, they don't mean it that way, but it doesn't change how it feels.
The amount of times people have literally just given up when trying to pronounce my name 😂
As someone named Kerynsa, I always knew it was my name when teachers hesitated. Then, a binch of kids in my school started doing the whole "I identify as [insert thing]" and I was getting tired of it, so I gave up and said "fuck it, I identify as a letter now, call me K." That made things easier for my teachers.
Edit: Also, a kid who identified as a FAIRY got mad at me for disrespecting those with body dysmorphia and blah blah blah. I looked at her and said, "I don't believe in fairies." Then she got mad, and I interrupted her saying, "Aw damn, guess you're not a fairy since you didn't die."
(It's a Tinkerbell reference in Peter Pan movie)
First of all, very savage of you and I love it.
Second of all, taking a crack at your name, is it pronounced Keh-rin-sah with emphasis on the second syllable?
It’s actually frustrating to always have to repeat my name three times just for teachers to pronounce it wrongly.
My first name is Eternity all the way through elementary school all my teachers refused to use it saying it was too long for a elementary school kid to remember.
When they hesitate, I know Its me
I love most my teachers because the pronounces my name wrong the first time and when I correct them they start getting and it makes me so happy 😊
Exactly!!! I have quite difficult name to pronounce, and one of my friends does, too.
and thats why my high school chemestry teacher called every single student
cutie
I hate that they would think it’s okay to call u by something so personal that only family uses
When ever I’ve had a substitute or a new teacher they’ve usually said sommet along the lines of “correct me if I say your name wrong” when doing the register and my friend has had to correct teachers for saying her name wrong but once she’s told them they remember it usually
My name is Genevieve, I get it! Most people ask me if I have a nickname and I’m like “no, sorry, my mom calls me Gigi but she is the only one I allow” and all the substitutes and new teachers call me gwenevieve or Geneva and I’m like “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
That’s like making a nickname for a teacher who’s last name is hard to pronounce
my teacher always asks”do you liked to be called by your nickname or just your name”
Ik it’s very annoying when a teacher calls me by my nickname and then my whole class calls me by that