From wiki.
Posted on 09/08/2009 10:57:56 AM PDT by Steelfish
Teachers Spot Trouble In A Name
Can teachers really predict behaviour from a name? Teachers think they can tell which pupils are likely to play up by looking at their names, a survey suggests.
The poll of 3,000 teachers found more than one in three expected pupils with certain names to be more disruptive.
Pupils called Callum, Connor, Jack, Chelsea, Courtney and Chardonnay were among some of the ones to watch.
The online survey by parenting club Bounty.com found 49% of UK teachers made assumptions about a child when they first looked down the register.
But it is not all bad news, with 57% of the teachers surveyed saying the naughtier children tended to be more popular than their better behaved peers.
More than a third said the naughtiest pupils were often the brightest and the more sensitive.
Naughty list
Many teachers (69%) said they had difficulty pronouncing some of the more obscure names chosen by parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
How about Mohammed? (the most popular boys name in the UK)
“Pupils called Callum, Connor, Jack, Chelsea, Courtney and Chardonnay were among some of the ones to watch.”
No worries, because in the UK, most boys are being named Muhammed anyway.
Freakanomics?
Ya beat me by 8 seconds!
Chav names. The Brit's equivelent to our Malik, Laticia, Jamal and Raven.
How about Hippy names like Sunshine, Ziggy, China, Sky, Marley, etc,?
I didn’t know there were names like this!
Great minds...
Wonder what some of these teachers would have thought of the name ‘Barack Hussein Obama’?
I would think child names such as “Bourbon”, “Crack”, “Crystal Meth”, “Mary Jane”, “Welfare”, “Punishment 1”, “Burden”, “Smartass”, “Torch”, “Van Jones”, “Bastard”, “Sonofab1tch”, “Trouble” - would also be obvious kids to watch as well.
Chav version of Shanaynay.
My wife a first grade teacher, says Cody’s give her hell.
From wiki.
Google to find many studies that show student’s behavior and success are affected by a teacher’s expectations.
...Almost without exception, a Jack Russell named "Satan" will be a more troublesome dog than a pit bull named "Moe".
“””a Jack Russell named “Satan”””””
Good Lord, my buddy had one of those. It was the spawn of the Tazmanian Devil. It tore his apartment to shreads. That damn thing would jump up and down, in one spot, for hours. For no reason at all.
Jack Russells have cricket genes.
“Wayne”, first or middle name, or “De Wayne”.
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