• millifoo@lemmy.ca
      25·
      1 year ago

      Yeah – I sure could have used “parental sign-off” when kids at school started calling me “dinky”.

      • thecodemonk@programming.dev
        5·
        1 year ago

        I was boner. It was back in the day of BBS’ and my handle was lone wolf. So they started calling me loner… Then one day Bill decided “we should just call you boner”. I said " oh please don’t". I shouldn’t have said that.

        In the end it wasn’t all that bad. I wasn’t particularly good looking but when girls heard that, they would ask why they call me that I would just say “it’s a long and very stupid story” it made them even more interested in me. LOL

  • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    303·
    1 year ago

    of course, they dehumanize and degrade these kids further by referring to their names as merely “nicknames” they have to be approved to use, making sure you know that they’re in control and stripping as much dignity as they can from the kids and parents in the process. as always, the cruelty is the point.

    why the hell should any school have control over someone’s name? fuck them.

    it’s fascism.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      18·
      1 year ago

      it’s fascism.

      Yes it is. It’s sad and scary to be able to say that about one of the two viable parties without being hyperbolic or rhetorical.

      • Bipta@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for sharing that. The introductory paragraphs are so gripping I found myself unable to do anything but read to the end.

    • Hype@lemm.ee
      14·
      1 year ago

      I’m a bit confused. Of course, if the parents are not supportive then them needing to approve the “nickname” is a problem, but if the parent is supportive, isn’t this good for parents becuase it give them more control over the school. If the parent approves of the nickname, the school has to recognize it and refer to the child by th name.

      I agree it’s taking control away from the kids, but is it not giving full control to the parents?

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        It’s building a literal database of all “non-conforming” children.

        Also, parents should not have full control over what their children want to be called.

      • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        Why should a parent have full control over what nickname their kid uses? Any parent who tries to excersize that level of total control over their kid is gonna wind up disowned when their kid hits 18 lol

        If that sounds normal to you, you might have had some seriously overbearing parents, hate to break it to you lol

  • SyJ@lemmy.ml
    15·
    1 year ago

    How are they going to enforce that? We had nicknames for most of our teachers and I don’t think any of those had approval.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    So…

    Any idiot can tell a class clown with supportive parent is going to do a form saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with

    And now the teacher/school will either have to pretend they don’t see the issue or open themselves up to legal issues.

        • SyJ@lemmy.ml
          31·
          1 year ago

          saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with

          I am always up for some skim reading and poor comprehension but in this case “or any other thing” implies the first thing is included, if you don’t want the first thing included you say “or anything”

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, no. Nobody at my kid’s high school has called me to rat them out on their name or gender presentation. Thank God. I don’t personally police that, my kid is safe, but they want to make the kids with crazy parents unsafe. Nothing good can come of this, but again - I don’t think schools are complying, at all.