Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I feel that way about all the kids (male and female) who have names that rhyme with "maiden."

Can you imagine the classrooms in a few years? Half the kids in there will be some version of Aiden, Jadyn, Braden, Caedan, etc. None of the poor kids will ever have their names spelled correctly, since there are a million spelling variations.

And the poor teachers who have to keep all that madness straight...

It's already happening. My son's school had three kindergarten classes. Between the three there were:
Aedan
Aiden
Aadan (or maybe it was Aaden?)
Brayden
Braedyn

They put one Aedan in each class and kept the Braydens separate as well, but at some point in time they will have to put some combination together in the same class!

They also had three Taylors. 2 boys and one girl.

[carnation]

One year our daughters' pre-K had 4 Z names--I think it was 2 Zachs, a Zeke, and a Zechariah? Every time I'd hear their names, I'd think of the line from Disney's Country Bear Jamboree: "Zeke and Zach and Ted and Fred and a bear named Tennessee!"

The teachers almost lost their minds with those and I may lose my mind with the unisex names, like Taylor, Morgan, and Jordan. We're flooded with them, both boys and girls, although they're not the prime stinkers. The other names I've put in this thread are.

[LaneSig]

Originally Posted by carnation

One year our daughters' pre-K had 4 Z names--I think it was 2 Zachs, a Zeke, and a Zechariah?

I can top that. One year, out of 22 kids (2nd Grade), I had 12 that had 1st names that started with "A".

My favorite year was teaching PE. My 3rd grade class had: Kasey, Casey, Kaylee, Kayla, Kelly, Kenny, Kelsey, Kara, and Kylie. Try yelling 1 kid's name on the play field and see how many answered.

"Kayla!"

"Me?"

"No, Kaylee. Kayla!"

"Me?"

"No, Kara. Kayla!"

"Me?"

And on, and on. Funny, the kid I was calling never seemed to answer.

[breathesgelatin]

One of my chapter sisters is doing Teach for America, and she had a student named Xenophobe last year.

No joke.