Comments on: Teachers Use Nominative Determinism To Label A Child

By: Bat E Bird

Bat E Bird — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:02:54 +0000

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.

By: Dr Eggman

Dr Eggman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:52:26 +0000

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.

By: June

June — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:55:30 +0000

What about the Hitlers?

By: yampster

yampster — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:20:14 +0000

To think, if Mr and Mrs Chamberlaine had called their son Brandon instead of Neville we might had had peace in our time