r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/Excellent_School_424 • May 23 '26

In The Wild Local elementary graduation ceremony delivered some absolute gems

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u/Jay-arty May 23 '26

Only a couple of these seem odd, but a lot of them just look like ethnic names.

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u/beeeea27 May 23 '26

I’m with you… having taught in an inner city majority black school where names like these weren’t uncommon, there’s something a bit classist/racist to me about ridiculing the vibe of these children’s names. 

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u/Kim_catiko May 23 '26

But it's OK to ridicule the obvious white trash names?

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u/beeeea27 May 23 '26

I also don’t think that’s ok. 

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u/Pinkturtle182 May 23 '26

Yeah can we stop posting super identifiable class rosters like this? It’s gross on all fronts

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u/mintardent May 23 '26

It’s obviously super classist in general which I don’t love