kindergarten

[flea]

We just got home from the open house at Casper's new school. It's a little sad to see assigned seats at tables instead of Montessori work stations. I also wasn't much impressed by her teacher, but on very little grounds - basically, I didn't like her outfit. So we'll see.

But, the real excitement of this post: baby names! All with social security rankings in 2003, the year most of these kids were born:
Garrison 677
Kendrick 477
Marques 853
Joshua 3
Aiden 73
Zariah not in top 1000
Isamar not in top 1000
Jimayah not in top 1000
Jackson 52
Adrian 68
Savannah 41
Benito 986
Dynasty not in top 1000
Kimberley not in top 1000
David 14

Other exciting names from the K list posted:
Feodor
Montavious
Jaquavious
Dequavious (I am sesning a theme here...)
Avonia
Zion
Lil Rodrick (this name will be great if he's a precocious hip-hop dancer, but what about when he's 55?)
Justice Brodey
Briceyda
Athena
Japheth
Ietta
Tyvarius

Not an Emily or a Jacob on the entire 60-kid list.

Also, the father of one of the kids in our class is the Recycling Coordinator for UGA, and I got to be like, I know what that is! smonster/luluminion, wouldn't it be funny if you guys knew him?

Comments

[mightyurchin.livejournal.com]

I'm still reeling from the fact that Benito squeaked into the top 1000 (clearly, memories of fascism are fading and Mussolini didn't make a big impact on the schoolchildren of my generation), but Kimberley didn't. I recall Kimberley being very popular circa 1970 (my sister might have been Kimberley, but a local friend of my father's had a girl shortly before my sister was born and beat him to the name) - I guess the name burned out.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I think spelled -ly it still makes the top 1000. Oh, yeah, 64 for 2003. So it's just the off spelling that's off the charts.