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The one that springs to mind wasn’t objectively bad, but caused a bit of an issue as a teacher. The girl was named Leekisha, pronounced lə-KEE-shə, which would have been fine except that our school principal mandated a very heavy emphasis on phonetics in the older grades that year (she was in year 7 so 11-12, not learning to read), and while English has a dozen plus graphemes that represent ə, /ee/ is not one of them.

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She was VERY offended that she couldn’t use the phonetic system for her name!

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Health care 🏥 Food and shelter 🥣🏠 Climate action 🌊
LGBTQIA+ acceptance 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Accessibility & inclusion 🦽♾
…are human rights

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Cats aren’t a human right, but they are pretty awesome 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

This message was edited 3/20/2025, 2:44 AM