Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order
phys.org
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Damn, my wife and I were on the fence about which last name to give our son or to hyphenate.

    Hers is C mine is R, but if we hyphenated it’d be almost 20 letters long and use every vowel. So we went with my last name from just tradition.

    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Long as you teach the kid to take responsibility for his/her own work or lack thereof its all good