Teachers Use Nominative Determinism To Label A Child
PRESS Release of the day comes from a parenting club that tells us that 49% of teachers make assumptions about a child by their name. Yeah, only 49%. All that hard work endured by mum and dad as they try to name their bundle is not all that important.
Also, 57% of the teachers say the naughtier children, the Jacks and the Chardonnays, tend to be more popular with their peers than the Lionels, Hyacinths and Nevilles.
More than a third of teachers said the naughtiest pupils were often the brightest and the more sensitive; while two–thirds said they often were not.
The parenting club is looking not to alienate its clients. A good spin can be placed on the research.
Brandon is not an over-indulged, annoying, precious, spoilt pain in the arse named by parents obsessed with US telly and burgers; Brandon is a child with special gifts and a brilliant extrovert personality that belies an active mind.
As the poem goes:
My child is gifted
You child is precocious
Their child is special needs
THE NAUGHTIEST NAMES (aka Most Free-Thinking)
Callum
Connor
Jack
Daniel
Brandon
Charlie
Chelsea
Courtney
Chardonnay
Aleisha
Casey
Crystal
The Least Naughty List (aka The Most Compliant Names)
Alexander, Adam, Christopher, Benjamin, Edward, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emma, Hannah and Rebecca.
This research is brought to us by… Faye Mingo.
Yeah, Faye. Oh, nominative determinism…
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September 8th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I remember reading something like this before and I was going to say it was last year but I’ve Googled and it was 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4274318.stm
I also read the comments on the website mentioned in the article. Some of them were quite funny.
Anyway, the bad list was:
Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K’tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Liam, Ryan
And the good list was:
Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph
It’s interesting how trends change.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
It’s not the child’s fault though, it’s their background and those from “less well off” backgrounds are more likely to be given chav names such as Chlamydia to make them sound more “exotic”. A bit like wearing too much jewellery, which has a negative effect to the one that it’s probably meant to. When did you last see a man with huge bracelets and sovereign rings or a woman with huge Creole earings and think, “Mmm, classy person”? So there may be some truth in it, but that’s my opinion.
If you want to read a brilliant poem, look up “Timothy Winters”. About a poor kid who doesn’t know he’s a poor kid. Brings a tear to my eye every time.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
What about the Hitlers?
September 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
To think, if Mr and Mrs Chamberlaine had called their son Brandon instead of Neville we might had had peace in our time