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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Surely any official records would use the student's legal name, not the chosen name they wish their teachers and classmates to use when addressing them.
This isn't a hard problem. Even when I was a student 30+ years ago, I had several classmates who, for a variety of different reasons, asked that they be addressed by a name other than their legal first name. Usually it was easily resolved on the first day of class:
Teacher, taking attendance while reading the list of students assigned to their class: "John Smith?"
John: "Yeah, that's me. My full name is actually John Smith Jr., but nobody uses that name. Everyone in my family calls me 'JR' so they don't confuse me with my father. That's the name I prefer to use."
Teacher: "Okay, thanks JR."
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Had a similar, but different story from HS.
In shop class many moons ago, we had a substitute who closely resembled Santa. When a freind of mine showed up late with chicken burgers from the cafeteria, he yelled at him "why are you late for my class?!" To which buddy replied:
"Well if it isn't Kris ####ing Kringle."
Using improper pronouns even back then wasn't the popular choice.