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07-08-2008, 09:00 AM
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Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids
Recently, I read a book in which a teacher said that there are many names that teachers--though they may love the names--will never give their own kids, due to awful stuff that their students with those names have done. This is true. I've talked to other teachers, including my husband, and they can tell you those names really fast! What are yours?
The ones that conjure up bad memories for me (and there were multiple mean kids named these):
80s: Chad, Jason, Shane
90s: Dakota, Dustin
now: Austin, Jaden
(And let me say that there were SIX Austins who lived in in-school suspension at our school last year)
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07-08-2008, 09:03 AM
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07-08-2008, 09:07 AM
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Bea (her last name really was Arthur - can you imagine?)
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07-08-2008, 09:11 AM
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LOL, teachers feel strongly about this; I've never gotten such a quick response after starting a thread. Let me add Dalton to my recent list, how could I have forgotten?
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07-08-2008, 09:08 AM
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If I have a daughter I want her to be named Melissa or Jessica. First one to tell me what those names have in common gets a cookie.
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07-08-2008, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by PhiGam
If I have a daughter I want her to be named Melissa or Jessica. First one to tell me what those names have in common gets a cookie.
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Double "s"? An "e", an "i" and an "a"?Keep the cookie - I'm getting into shape, and don't need the carbs! 
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07-08-2008, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Double "s"? An "e", an "i" and an "a"?Keep the cookie - I'm getting into shape, and don't need the carbs! |
No cookie for you, it has nothing to do with the structure of the names or anything.
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07-08-2008, 10:18 AM
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Melissa and Jessica -
Both titles of Allman Brothers songs!
I WANT MY COOKIE!!!
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07-08-2008, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Quala67
Melissa and Jessica -
Both titles of Allman Brothers songs!
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Beat me to it! I once saw a cartoon of a very distraught looking teacher in a class picture, and the students' names Scot, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Scott, Scott, Jennifer, Scott, Jennifer...
My personal "names to hate" from experience (and my apologies to those who have these names) are Jeffery and Christopher. I actually broke off a very serious relationship with a man who was insistent that his son would be named Jeffery.
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07-09-2008, 12:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quala67
Melissa and Jessica -
Both titles of Allman Brothers songs!
I WANT MY COOKIE!!!
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Correct! Chocolate chip OK?
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07-08-2008, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by PhiGam
No cookie for you, it has nothing to do with the structure of the names or anything.
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BUT - those are things they have in common. Just sayin'!
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07-08-2008, 12:36 PM
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I'm not a teacher, but there are names of ex-boyfriends and mean kids I remember that have been stricken from my list:
Jason
Todd
Peter
Sean/Shawn/Shaun
Shaely
Blaine
Ashley
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07-08-2008, 10:43 AM
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From Teaching:
Byron
D'Nicholas
Tawna
Kieran
Giovonne
Adonis
Martin
Chris, Christopher, Chrissy
Brooke
Patrick
Jack
Zach
Skyler
From Growing Up:
Mary
Kelly
Jennifer
From Dating:
I'm not going to give any son of mine a "J" name - It seems all my exes had a "J" name and I don't think there are any left! lol
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07-08-2008, 10:50 AM
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My husband says that from last year alone, he could never name his kid:
Jeremy
Chad
Shuntae
Hunter
and he says don't get him going on years in the past.
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07-08-2008, 11:19 AM
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Easy--
Dana
Julio
Kelsey
Maria
Pam
Joseph
June
Rodney
Elsa
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