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Thanks to Adeyemi Stembridge, I learned about this video.
I’m adding it to The Best Resources On The Importance Of Correctly Pronouncing Student Names.
This is beautiful and powerful! I’m so glad you shared it with us.
Thanks for sharing this. Absolutely, knowing how to pronounce them is important.
This week ABC ran a rerun of Blackish, speaking about this very topic, The Name Game. http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/black-ish-isnt-afraid-sounding-too-black-250007
I have students who have names using the ñ i but it isn’t used in the district system. Or a student who is Cambodian and Vietnamese but instead of being called his real name, students start calling him Chino because they thought he was Chinese. He told me his name was Chino but when I pushed it, he gave me the pronunciation of his real name. I call him by his real name and have asked other teachers to do so.
More importantly teachers need to reflect their feelings about names that don’t reflect their culture.