Miss Butt? Mrs War Boys? Mr Shufflebottom?

5-year-old kid chastised because she laughed at her teacher having the name of Miss Butt…

Really? Who didn’t laugh at their teachers’ names back in the day when they were kids? All the time I was in class, rotund German teacher Mr Patchett was referred to, amongst ourselves, as “Fat shit Patchett”. As far as I was aware, he never found out, since I’m sure if he had, we’d have been for the high jump. There was also a biology teacher who looked like M.Lafayette from the cartoons in the French text books we studied, so he was referred to as that. Add in Maths teacher Mrs Worboys, whose name was pronounced ‘War Boys’ like the Duran Duran No.1 song of that era… so we’d chant “War Boys! War Boys!”

Similarly, one kid had the surname Shufflebottom. You can imagine what followed, there…

Fact of the matter is, if you want to teach and you have a first name or surname that you think the students will take the mickey out of… change your name!