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It wasn't even just him. Apparently, there were multiple trans students deadnamed. So it's not just an accident for one person.
Alberta is the part of Canada that makes me feel ashamed to be Canadian :(
Alberta is the part of Alberta that makes me ashamed to be Albertan.
You ever shop at Albertson's?
I'm ashamed to say I have, and even worked there.
Alberta is the part of Canada that makes me feel ashamed to be Canadian :(
Maybe they can rebrand as A.I.berta and raise lots of money.
I’m sure it’s not, but I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt that the Yearbook Adviser just had the names auto-import from the district database and didn’t change to nicknames or names students go by. It’s a big job to go through a thousand names and make change those that are wrong. Using the registered name is usually a safe bet.
edit: For those who are downvoting, what strategy would you use to find out the names every student is know by? Teachers have trouble getting work back from the students in their classroom, so imagine how hard this would be to do with a thousand people you’ve never met. There may be a good method, but I can’t think of it.
edit 2: I guarantee a teacher is in charge of the yearbook because admins would never touch that kind of work. Teachers usually fail the students because of being overworked and essentially sabotaged by admins and the government (and sadly even parents). They usually stay teaching because they care about the students. They don’t have time or the will to be malicious.
edit 3: ~~Final (hopefully)~~ Another thought… Did the yearbook staff (students who make the yearbook) speak up about this before publishing the book? Most yearbooks are 90%+ student-made.
edit 4: Final thought… It is important to call people by their chosen names—whether or not this lines up with their names assigned at birth. I am hoping this time it was a mistake caused by the impossible job of being a teacher and not from bigotry. I think the best solution would be something systematic: Every computer system that stores a human’s name needs to have a “goes by” field.
Yeah, the school has around 1500 kids, so I'm sure you're right, especially since they took action as soon as they were notified of the mistake.
Everyone who appears in a yearbook typically has a special photo taken for it. It would not be that hard to take a moment at that time to check whether the student has a preferred name
How would you ask the students?
The portraits are usually done by a third party photography company, and schools aren’t going to pay extra to have that company ask.
When I was in school, we had to submit a form to the yearbook community with the proper spelling of our name every year
Was it mostly successful? ~~I feel~~ It seems like wrong names or spellings in yearbooks is pretty common.
I'm reasonably certain that it was. I dont remember ever seeing an incorrect name as long as someone submitted their form.
What is this news website? Why is the article 3 sentences long?
It is a summary of the story sourced from the news articles below
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