It is not their first and middle names boys are on the left girls on the right…when I typed it out the lists looked separated…and they are not racist, as I said I work in an urban inner city district.
[name_f]May[/name_f] I ask how are these names racist? Sorry, I’m a foreigner so I probably didn’t notice something that’s clear to American people, but I’d like to know.
@dramagrl - Actually, this girl isn’t a troll at all. If you have concerns about someone lying on the boards, please contact an admin or a moderator directly, thanks.
If you really are a teacher and are really posting the names of your students then you’re most likely violating your contract and can get into serious trouble for this. Yikes!
I work in a kindergarten class - its fine to post first names ONLY if the names are not too unusual - if the stats show that more than 2 little ones were given that name 4-5 years ago, then it’s different. The names you have listed are very unique - it’s likely that those children are the only ones with those names, in which case, you could have potentially jeopardized your job by posting the names. If one of their parents were to see this, they could EASILY report you to the school district/principal/school board/superintendent and file a complaint against you for breaching confidentiality. If your school board decides to do an investigation against you, finds this post, and reports you, they could actually fire you for breaching a confidentiality contract.
PS: As far as I know (not sure about the US, but I’m guessing they’re the same), kindergarten classes have a limit of 25 as for the number of students in them, any more than that and it’s too many for the teacher to handle. However, if, like the school I am in, you have two different classes taught by one teacher (alternating days or one morning class, one afternoon), then I seriously doubt you only have 12-13 students per class. Sorry but your class list doesn’t quite match up to what you are saying.
I don’t believe her post at all but that’s because of the lack of professionalism and not the class size. Class size will vary district to district. My district has a rule that class sizes cannot exceed 35 kids but after the 20th day of school you can’t request more staff so we have 36 kindergarteners in one room and 38 8th graders in another. My husband on the other hand teaches high school at a district 35 minutes away and has class sizes 12-24.
Alright people relax…I’m sorry I posted it now. It is only the students FIRST names and these names are common in our area. The boys were listed on the left girls on the right making 26 students.
I think the class size has something to do with it because she claims to live in a city (I live practically on the border of the city she’s saying she lives in, an hour or less away). This city she lives in would likely have 2 kindergarten classes, usually they’d try to split up the number of kids. Definitely on the lack of professionalism though - my class is all top 1000 names, so odds are, if I posted the class list (obviously leaving out my location, another flaw with the OP’s post) it would be incredibly difficult to pinpoint where the classroom is, and it would be obvious that the kids are not the only 4-5 year olds with the names that they have. [name_m]Even[/name_m] then though, I think I have only commented on individual names with 'I once taught/worked with a little insert name here".
It’s not even that - you’ve pretty much given away the city you are from (at least to anyone living near it), and that is the breach of confidentiality. In the city you live in, I’m highly doubting that there are an abundance of [name_f]Kaia[/name_f]-[name_f]Vanessa[/name_f]'s running around.
Ok I agree it was in poor taste and I didn’t obviously think it through. I just thought it would be cool to share the names with you guys. This is the last thing I will say on the topic…moving on…