stupid names often indicate child abuse

[threeplusfire]

I just took a report on a family that named their child Drizzt. Yes, Drizzt as in Drizzt Do'Urden of the Forgotten Realms RPG and books. Seriously guys, this is so beyond wrong I don't know what to do. My coworker Stacy suggests their next child be named Anita Blake, Buffy, or Xena.

Comments

Re: Harry Potter and Raistlin

[trueliminality.livejournal.com]

If I started being referred to as Snape, I think that tsarina would come after me the next time I visited.

you could have replied, "No, now go work out why, & I want an essay on it by tomorrow morning!"

That could have worked at times but I had worked mainly with the young and special education. If I ever decided to leave my current occupation I may very well go into teaching; the only problem is deciding between special education where I seem to have a knack or high school where questions like yours start to become interesting debates.

Re: Harry Potter and Raistlin

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, dilemma. Special education is Useful, high school is a lot of lippy teenagers (even with the interesting debates) & paperwork.

Over here it also involves a lot of 'crowd control' rather than actual 'education' - which could be why up to a third of British school leavers (at 16-18) are reckoned to be functionally illiterate! I don't think that many kids have "learning difficulties", well, not beyond they have never learned to sit down, be quiet & LISTEN for once anyhow! But it's many many years since I've had contact with Education - & that was when our two were in school.