A student has slammed their teacher for repeatedly getting his name wrong during registration. He explained how he has a non-English name that is similar in spelling but different in pronunciation to a common English moniker. Providing an example, he said it’s like Johan instead of John.
Taking to Reddit, he said: “So every day this one teacher would call out the name John. And as we had no kids called John in our class nobody would answer. The first few times after the silence I would put my hand up and politely ask if the teacher meant me and reaffirm that my name was in fact Johan.
“Nothing changed. Every day he calls out John. So I start ignoring it. It’s not my name and to continue to use the wrong name when you have both been corrected and the correct name is written before you is rude.”
His protest resulted in an after-school detention, prompting him to inform his dad, who promptly scheduled a meeting with the principal to address the issue. And it’s safe to say he managed to get revenge on the teacher!
He continued: “This teacher has a meltdown, starts screaming at me that I should reply because ‘it’s close enough’ and puts me in detention after school the next day. My dad comes into the school the next day and we have a meeting with us two, the Headmaster and the teacher in question.
“All through this meeting my dad refers to this teacher exclusively as ‘Mr Brown’ despite the teacher’s name not being that. The teacher takes offence to this and accuses my father of being rude for not addressing him correctly…and then the penny drops and he realises what my dad is doing.
“The teacher tries to bluster his way out of this claiming it is different as he has an entire class full of pupils but the Headteacher cuts him off and says there is no excuse as he had a list of names to read from.”
People praised the dad for taking action. Commenting on his post, one user simply said: “Your dad is mint.” Meanwhile, others shared their own experiences of getting in trouble in school.
One commented: “We once got a class detention because someone laughed whilst the teacher was talking, and nobody would own up to it.” And another shared: “[I got one for] talking on the way to fifth period. Didn’t know the teacher that gave me the detention so I gave him a fake name and didn’t go Luckily got away with it.”