And interestingly enough
the page has been pulled on the BBC NEWS site!
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I am sure you will remember this
Amani, T-Jay and - the best for last - Lita
Lita!? As in litter? Classy!!!!!Leave a comment:
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....errr...Not me, Sir, no, no, no. My name is Piers Stanford Oberon Wilberforce III - honestOriginally posted by The Lone Gunman
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Do people really name their children Nokia these days?
Courtney
Cortnee
Cortnie
What about Caughtknee? or even Courtknee?Leave a comment:
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Good one.Originally posted by hyperD
I like the name Mercedes-Chardonnay. Classy, isn't it?Leave a comment:
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Doesn't this support the teachers' point?Originally posted by threaded
I think there is something depressing about parents who cannot spell the name they have chosen for their offspring (Chelsie? Chelseigh?!?! Kloe, Cortnee, Cortnie, Reece ...). The child has got these abhorances on their birth certificate for life.
Why not go the whole hog and call them Slappa, Gyt, or Tossa?
Still, there but for the grace of God go I.Leave a comment:
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Adrienne
Poppy
Ashley
Troy
Bobbi-Jo
Jean-Marie
Kloe
Hollee
Storm
Nokia
Adrienne
Alanna
Ashleigh
Britney
Candice
Chantelle
Chelsie
Chelseigh
Chloe
Cindy
Courtney
Cortnee
Cortnie
Danielle
Jade
Jodie
Jordan
Kayleigh
Keeley
Keira
Kimberley
Kylie
Leanne
Leigh
Lou-Lou
Mia
Paige
Poppy
Stacey
Tyler
Ashley
Chayse
Conor
Connor
Curtis
Damon
Declan
Dillon/Dylan
Dwayne
Grant
Jordan
Josh
Kade
Kane
Kieron
Kyle
Liam
Mason
Mitchell
Myles
Painton
Rhys / Reece
Ryan
Scott
Shane
Troy
Tyler
Wayne
Dwaines
Duanes
Jermaines
Lances
Sounds like a standard pupil sample from a "new" Liebour skool.Leave a comment:
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So which one are you then Wage?Originally posted by WageSlave
Ashley - poof
Josh - poof
Grant - poof
Scott - poofLeave a comment:
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But there is a difference between having a poofy name (Oi, I objective to that!) and having a Chav name.
And since when did teachers become the bastion of middle-class tradition? Most of them are pretty common.Leave a comment:
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Ashley - poof
Josh - poof
Grant - poof
Scott - poof
Ar$e bandits.In contrast, Waynes, Dwaines, Duanes, Jermaines and Lances came bottomLeave a comment:
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'Chav' names feared by teachers
Went to the TES site in question and had a read. Found a wonderful quote in another thread: "The Labour politicians who promote it send their own kids to private schools, where there is certainly no howling half-wit squealing and rocking in the chair."
Anyways I digress from my thread, before it even starts...
Daily Mail
What's in a name? asked Shakespeare - indicating that it doesn't really matter what you are called.
But many teachers emphatically disagree - declaring that they can tell from the 'chav' names parents give to their children that they are likely to be little devils at school.
From Adrienne and Poppy, to Ashley and Troy, the contributors to a website for teachers have compiled a list of girls' and boys' names they automatically associate with troublesome behaviour.
The names alone were enough to fill the staff with dread as they read through their new registers at the start of this term.
Teachers also fear names with a hyphen, such as Bobbi-Jo and Jean-Marie. Variants of common names - for example, Kloe and Hollee - inspire similar trepidation.
An online discussion running to 20 web pages started when one teacher wrote on the Times Educational Supplement Internet site: 'I went through my new class list and mentally circled the ones I thought would be difficult. I reckon I have a 75 per cent hit rate.'
The name that 'inspired the most dread' was Paige. Subsequent contributors listed their own most feared appellations - ranging from Storm to Nokia. One scathingly claimed such youngsters are from 'chav' backgrounds.
These are the girls' names that made the teachers blanch - some with comments attached: Adrienne (kiss of death - spiteful, sneaky or both), Alanna, Ashleigh, Britney, Candice, Chantelle (spawn of the devil), Chelsie, Chelseigh, Chloe (nasty, spiteful).
Cindy (always a pain in the a**e) Courtney, Cortnee, Cortnie (trouble), Danielle (a nightmare), Jade, Jodie, Jordan (pretty bad for a girl), Kayleigh (a pain), Keeley, Keira (live in fear), Kimberley, Kylie, Leanne, Leigh, Lou-Lou,
Mia, Paige, Poppy (hyperactive and not very bright), Stacey, Tyler (lesson disrupter).
And these are the boys' names that the teachers most fear: Ashley, Chayse, Conor, Connor (a nightmare), Curtis, Damon, Declan, Dillon/Dylan, Dwayne (a terror), Grant, Jordan, Josh (arrogant, nasty, selfish.
Kade, Kane, Kieron, Kyle (always spells trouble), Liam (always a bad lad), Mason (a horror), Mitchell, Myles, Painton, Rhys / Reece (a nightmare), Ryan, Scott (live in fear), Shane (a terror), Troy, Tyler (lesson disrupter), Wayne (a terror).
But parents failed to see the funny side when news of the blacklist spread to bounty.com - a website designed for mothers.
One contributor branded the teachers 'appalling' and 'sub-standard' for judging pupils by their names, adding: 'If this is what my children will face when they start school, then I might as well home educate.
'I'm sorry, but as teachers you shouldn't be doing this. It's verging on bullying, which teachers are meant to be against.'
One mother even contacted the Department for Education and Skills, declaring: 'I and many other parents are disgusted by the attitudes or the teachers on the forum.
'I realise this is a small number of teachers, but they have taken time out of their day to post these comments and I presume ... they actually mean what they are saying'.
The row follows Government research suggesting pupils' names are linked to differing success rates in exams.
Children with middle-class names such as Katharine and Duncan were up to eight times more likely to pass their GCSEs than Waynes and Dwaines.
Girls called Katharine were found to have gained the best results with Madeleines coming second.
In contrast, Waynes, Dwaines, Duanes, Jermaines and Lances came bottom.
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