Comments on: Kayla Kelsey Kaitlyn Kendra Kailey: the girls

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:06:37 +0000

Katja should be offended. But I won’t show this to her! ;> Nor my sister: Kate. Nor our (Kate-my-sister’s and mine) older, honorary sister: Kate. But thanks, Kate-my-friend, anyway!

By: Karin S.

Karin S. — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:50:54 +0000

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

By: Karin S.

Karin S. — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:50:22 +0000

I knew you 30 years ago. Unless you changed between high school and college, you were never a KKKKK.

By: Britton Minor

Britton Minor — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:27:54 +0000

My husband and I just informed our daughter that she may NOT keep her “K” name. She is devastated, to say the least, but once she read your post, she totally understood. Besides, Zoora is not such a bad name, is it?

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:19:34 +0000

I have never pictured your students as Teen Agers. Thought they were mostly young adults in re-arrangement stages. Your observations are clear – But these typical kids aren’t really so bad, are they? Im glad you are where you are too!! Most of your “PX” items are proof that you are much more that an English teacher. xo

By: Darlene

Darlene — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:20:17 +0000

Okay, I will confess that I have exactly this problem. I never have more than 40 students per term now (I haven’t taught more than 2 sections of comp in a long time), but after more than a decade, I have way more trouble learning their names and remembering them than I used to. Once I prided myself on knowing all their names within a week of class, now I’m lucky if I have them all after a month. Sometimes, like your KKKKK’s, I have trouble distinguishing them all semester. Like you, I usually get it by the end, but it takes will. And, with the exception, as you say, of the really engaged, interactive students you can’t help but remember, I lose their names almost as soon as the semester is over. It’s like I have the names in a fish bowl, and as soon as I no longer use them weekly, the names simply evaporate.