(January 17, 2022 at 8:17 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(January 17, 2022 at 8:11 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: To be fair, most of the white adults in the book were basically written as ridiculous parodies, like the gym teacher who kept asking if what he was saying was racist every five seconds, and then you had the white Karen teacher who got his name wrong all year long, which is not a realistic situation at all and would not happen in real life, especially given that the teacher gets his name right all of a sudden when he gets in trouble.
My brother's woman French teacher called him "Paul" all year long. She preferred it to his real name. Some people are strange.
Some people like to call people "Paul" when that's not their real name. Especially when they write epistles they want canonized.
But in foreign language class, it's quite common to be assigned a different name. Not sure why. I name was "Dietrich" in high school German class. Are you sure that isn't what's going on?