She Called Out Her Daughter’s Spanish Teacher For Refusing To Use Her Daughter’s Real Name In Spanish Class, But Her Husband Thinks She Blew Things Out Of Proportion
If you took a language class in middle or high school, did you ever get called by a different name closer to the language in class by the teacher?
It’s something a lot of language teachers do, but not every student is thrilled with their new name for the school year.
One woman recently had to stand up for her daughter, who didn’t want to be called a different name in her Spanish class.
She has a 14-year-old daughter named Alexandra. Ever since she was about 10-years-old, Alexandra has had a strong aversion toward people giving her nicknames or calling her anything else but Alexandra.
“The family respects it, and she’s pretty good about advocating for herself should someone call her Lexi, Alex, etc.,” she explained.
“She also hates when people get her name wrong and just wants to be called Alexandra.”
In middle school, Alexandra started attending Spanish class. The teacher had a class tradition where she called students by the Spanish version of their name if there was one. So, Alexandra’s teacher started calling her Alejandra.
Alexandra spoke with her teacher about her name, and her teacher respected her wishes and called her Alexandra for the duration of middle school Spanish.
But when she got to high school, it was a different story.
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“Once again, the new teacher announced if a student had a Spanish version of their name, she’d call them that,” she said.
“So, she called Alexandra, Alejandra. Alexandra corrected her, but the teacher ignored her. My daughter came home upset after the second week. I am not the type of mom to write emails, but I felt I had to in this case.”
When she emailed Alexandra’s teacher, she said that if Alexandra ever went to a Spanish-speaking country, she’d be called by that name. She felt this excuse was kind of weak, especially given that Alexandra’s former Spanish teacher, who had come to America from a Spanish-speaking country, had no issue with calling her by her actual name.
Surprisingly, Alexandra’s Spanish teacher went back and forth with her on this matter for a while.
“The teacher tried to dig her heels in, but I [asked] if it wasn’t that big a deal in her eyes that she calls her Alejandra, why is it such a big deal to just call her Alexandra?” she recalled.
“Eventually, she gave in. Alexandra confirmed that her teacher is calling her by her proper name.”
After all was said and done, her husband started giving her grief, telling her that she blew things out of proportion and Alexandra could’ve just sucked it up for the school year.
Did she blow things out of proportion, or was she right to stand up for her daughter?
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